It is now a well-established ritual. Every time his face appears on the television of a bar or the giant screen of a Swiss fan zone, the whistles increase, the boos ring out and we hear a few insults flying. If the “Nati” (the nickname of the Swiss national football team) has already won hearts before its historic quarter-final against Argentina on the night of Saturday to Sunday, Gianni Infantino, the Italian-Swiss president of Fifa, has also achieved a feat: alienating the entire local population.
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