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After promising to learn from its role in a failed “Super League” that fueled fan anger, the Wall Street bank is involved in FIFA’s latest meltdown. Tariq Panja has reported on FIFA and the business of sport for two decades. In April 2021, JPMorgan Chase found itself in the midst of a storm. A plan for a breakaway Super League featuring the richest soccer clubs in the world, which would have unmoored the century-old structures of the sport in Europe, had folded in less than a week. Fans of rival clubs had poured onto the streets in protest, and their governments joined the condemnation.
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