Napoli boss harshly criticizes FIFA: They stole millions and no one is in control!

Aurelio De Laurentiis is having a great season. The owner of two football clubs must be very happy with his “toys”. Napoli is ruling Serie A, Bari is fighting for promotion to the elite. But despite the reasons to be happy, he also finds negatives and comments on FIFA’s behaviour.

Napoli is ruling the Italian league with a 15-point lead over second-placed Inter Milan. There is therefore great euphoria in the city under Vesuvius and with it the excitement that the title could be won again after 33 long years.

Even the club’s president and owner Aurelio De Laurentiis is not hiding his excitement. He, among others, has another reason to rejoice. His Bari is playing for promotion in Serie B, which of course has a negative impact.

Should Bari succeed in getting promoted, De Laurentiis will have to sell one of his clubs. The choice will naturally fall on the current second division team. He has already revealed that he will make sure that Bari eventually gets into the best possible hands.

But on Monday he also spoke about other topics. Apparently, he had a look at Netflix, and specifically the series FIFA Uncovered. It depicts corruption in the main governing body of world football.

The series does an excellent job of mapping what is going on in the International Federation of Association Football and describing how the whole organisation, or rather the dirty practices within it, actually work. The whole series was released before the start of the World Cup in Qatar.

And what does De Laurentiis have to say about it? “Have you seen on Netflix what FIFA has done? The people inside stole millions. They are in Switzerland, outside any European jurisdiction, and nobody is in control,” Il Corriere dello Sport quotes him as saying.

It is undoubtedly worth noting that De Laurentiis uttered these words at the Luigi Vanvitelli Law Department of the University of Campania and they were picked up by Italy’s biggest media outlets. After all, it is unusual for such a high-ranking man in world football to make similar comments about FIFA.

Source: Football-Italia, Netflix, Serie A