FIFA President Gianni Infantino issued an apology to the FIFA Council during a tense, meeting in Zurich, but failed to appease his sharpest critics.During a three-and-a-half-hour extended meeting, Infantino apologized for communication and consultation failures regarding the scrapped $4.2 billion...

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