Gianni Infantino

For a few years now, Dubai has hosted a kind of get-together for the football world that's part conference, part awards gala...

Although many see him as an aloof individual with a short fuse, in this instance Luis Rubiales has shown that he has a smooth touch, one that former Italian PM Mario Andreotti claimed was perennially lacking in Spanish politics.

The planned LaLiga match in Miami remains a major source of conflict between football's two main governing bodies in Spain...