Infantino set to take his FIFA re-election campaign to Japan to court Asian soccer federations

TOKYO: Gianni Infantino’s campaign for re-election as FIFA president is set to move this week to Japan and a meeting scheduled for Wednesday with the Asian Football Confederation. This comes after Infantino apologized last week in Zurich, Switzerland, to FIFA’s 37-member ruling council — which he chairs — for “mistakes” he made in assembling a now-scrapped $4.2 billion sell-off plan for the World Cup. The council is the main decision-making body at FIFA with a global spread of officials. The