‘See you at the hairdressers’: Infantino’s bizarre reply to bald reporter

• Fifa president tells Sky man: ‘You have a nice haircut’

• Odd exchange outside a hotel in the Dominican Republic

Gianni Infantino told a reporter “I’ll see you at the hairdressers” after he was asked whether he had betrayed football over his aborted World Cup sell-off plan.

The Fifa president was stopped outsidehttps://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/aug/20/gianni-infantino-eyes-junior-tournament-dominican-republic-route-out-of-fifa-crisis"> a hotel in the Dominican Republic by Sky News’ US correspondent James Matthews, who challenged the under-fire leader of football’s governing body over why he had not resigned, despite https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/aug/20/fans-petition-infantino-resignation-fifa-president">calls from across the game for him to step down.