Milan, 24 February (LaPresse) – ‘We would like the World Cup to be held elsewhere, not in the United States, not now. The American president's position has been to forget and ignore the most disadvantaged and the weakest and to side with his economic interests.’ This was said by Paulo Fonseca, former coach of Roma and Milan and now coach of Lyon, during an interview with L'Equipe four years after the outbreak of war in Ukraine. The Portuguese coach is personally affected by what is happening in Ukraine, having coached Shakhtar and being married to a Ukrainian woman. "The American president doesn't think about people. He thinks about money. I don't know if football is the best way to protest against all this, but there are things that are unacceptable to me,‘ said Fonseca, who did not spare FIFA president Gianni Infantino from criticism either. ’The FIFA Peace Award given to Trump? It's so sad, football doesn't deserve it. It's a disgrace," said Fonseca.
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