Gianni Infantino fails to attend key meeting with ECA in Doha

Infantino was a no-show for the meeting, despite it taking place in the governing body’s hotel.

A key agreement between Europe’s top clubs and FIFA went unsigned on Friday after FIFA president Gianni Infantino missed the meeting (Nick Potts/PA)

Gianni Infantino failed to turn up to a meeting in Doha on Friday between Europe’s top clubs and FIFA as a key new agreement went unsigned.

Sources told that FIFA had invited the European Club Association to hold a board meeting in Qatar during the World Cup, with the specific intention of signing off on a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to start from January 1, when the existing MoU expires.