{"id":459629,"date":"2026-07-13T09:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/07\/13\/eurodeputati-m5s-pd-e-avs-scrivono-a-malago-far-aprire-unindagine-alla-commissione-etica-della-fifa\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:21:16","slug":"m5s-pd-and-avs-meps-write-to-malago-have-the-fifa-ethics-committee-open-an-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/07\/13\/m5s-pd-and-avs-meps-write-to-malago-have-the-fifa-ethics-committee-open-an-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"M5S, PD and AVS MEPs write to Malag\u00f2: \u201cHave the FIFA Ethics Committee open an investigation”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 The new president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), Giovanni Malag\u00f2, criticised US President Donald Trump\u2019s interference in the World Cup from the outset, describing it as \u201cnonsense\u201d and \u201ca dangerous precedent.\u201d<\/a> Italian MEPs have therefore decided to seize the opportunity to call on Malag\u00f2 himself to take action and launch an investigation into FIFA president Gianni Infantino. A total of 32 MEPs, including representatives from the Five Star Movement (The Left), the PD (S&D), and AVS (Greens and The Left),<\/strong> have written to Malag\u00f2 asking him to keep up the pressure on the “Balogun case,”the US footballer whose suspension was lifted following a phone call from Trump to Infantino.<\/p>\n

 In the letter<\/a> In the letter sent by MEPs to Malag\u00f2, the FIGC is asked to \u201cformally support the request for the FIFA Ethics Committee to open an investigation<\/strong>, in order to ascertain whether the disciplinary proceedings were conducted in full compliance with FIFA regulations, whether there was any external interference or political pressure in the proceedings relating to the suspension of the player\u2019s ban, and whether the principles of independence, impartiality, and neutrality set out in the FIFA Statutes and Code of Ethics were upheld.\u201d <\/p>\n

The outcry in the European Parliament calling for an active role for FIGC was led by Carolina Morace<\/strong> (M5S\/The Left), a member of the Committees on Constitutional Affairs and Women\u2019s Rights, who spearheaded the initiative, which she believes is a matter of duty: \u201cThe Balogun case cannot be allowed to fade into obscurity because it casts serious doubts on the independence and impartiality<\/strong> of FIFA\u2019s disciplinary procedures,\u201d she explains. Transparency, she emphasises, \u201cis essential to preserving the trust of millions of fans, athletes, and federations in FIFA\u2019s work.\u201d At stake is \u201cthe FIFA presidency\u2019s respect for the principle of political neutrality\u201d and the credibility of the football system. It is an issue that some members of the Chamber are calling on Malag\u00f2 to resolve immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Letter from 32 Italian MEPs calling on the FIGC to put pressure on FIFA President Gianni Infantino; Morace (M5S): \u201cThe Balogun case casts serious doubt on the independence and impartiality of disciplinary proceedings\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":459623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681,25717],"tags":[30218,25755,26136,34741,34815,30253,26053,30219],"class_list":["post-459629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-sports","tag-carolina-morace-en","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-fifaone","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-giovanni-malago","tag-m5s-europe-and","tag-calcium-en","tag-coppa-del-mondo-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459630,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459629\/revisions\/459630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}