Infantino Wants to Collect on Trump’s World Cup Favor but Polymarket Says He’s 36% Out

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has reportedly asked the Trump administration to help him keep his job, arranging a call with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the New York Post reported Monday.

Polymarket traders price his exit by December 31 at 36.5%, up from roughly 19% a week ago. Almost all of the contract's lifetime volume arrived in the past seven days.

Why Infantino Thinks Trump Owes FIFA a Favor

The reported ask lands four weeks after FIFA handed the White House a win. Its disciplinary committee cleared Folarin Balogun for Belgium, suspending the striker's automatic red card ban on probation.

Trump had pushed for the reversal and claimed credit for it publicly.

"Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right, and reversing a great injustice!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Rubio is not a cold call. He sat in the Oval Office with Trump and Infantino last November. The occasion was a task force meeting on the World Cup.

FIFA's bridge into that room is now gone. Carlos Cordeiro, the former Goldman Sachs banker who represented FIFA on the task force, resigned Friday over the sale plan. He had joined Infantino on repeated White House visits.

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