FifPro, the world’s main player union, has branded Gianni Infantino as “the man who thinks he’s god” in a tirade against the Fifa president and the Club World Cup.

The President's attendance of the FIFA Club World Cup final is the latest in a string of high-profile sports-related trips in his second term.

On Sunday, FIFPro’s president Sergio Marchi referred to his FIFA counterpart Gianni Infantino as “The man who thinks he is God”, saying that football’s world governing body’s decision-making process had become “unilateral” and “authoritarian”.

President Donald Trump will attend the FIFA Club World Cup final on Sunday afternoon (July 13), on the first anniversary of the assassination attempt he survived in Butler, Pennsylvania, while campaigning in the 2024 election.

FIFPRO was not invited to a summit meeting in New York between FIFA president Gianni Infantino and players' groups, sources have told ESPN.

Global players' union Fifpro is not invited to a "key" meeting that Fifa president Gianni Infantino held on player welfare and where a minimum three-week off-season break was agreed, BBC Sport has been told.

FIFA says players' representatives and the sport's governing body have reached a consensus on the need for a period of rest of 72 hours between matches, and agreed that players should enjoy a minimum of 21 days of holidays at the end of each season.

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