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FIFA, between name change and stories of wholesale under

The great maneuvers begin to organize on the side of EA Sports, which would consider abandoning the FIFA brand in the event that the license agreement with the powerful global federation would not be renewed. A recent article from New York Times enlightens us on the reasons for this possible withdrawal, and at the risk of surprising the assembly, it is clearly a fight of influence, not to say a story of wholesale under. If we believe the testimonies collected by the US daily, the negotiations in progress for at least two years around the renewal of the license agreement would face a wall. So much so that a definitive break after the World Cup at Qatar 2022, at the end of the tenth and final year of contract which binds both parties, is not excluded; At least that s what the last statement of Cam Weber, Executive Chairman and Managing Director of EA Sports, published a few days ago. And as often when renegotiating the rights related to the sport King that is football, it is the amounts...