The world’s two most powerful football bodies are at war again, and this time the battlefield is not a stadium but a courtroom in Florida. FIFA has accused UEFA, European football’s governing body, of running a “misinformation” campaign against it, in the latest escalation of a bitter feud that has been simmering for years. At the centre of the dispute is a demand by UEFA for FIFA to hand over documents related to a controversial plan by FIFA president Gianni Infantino to sell off parts of the World Cup’s commercial future. FIFA, in its response to a court case in…

The latest chapter in the long-simmering battle between world football’s governing body and its wealthiest regional confederation has turned into a sharply personal, legally explosive clash. FIFA, in a U.S. court filing, has responded to UEFA’s attempts to obtain sensitive documents through a rarely used legal mechanism known as a Section 1782 application. For those unfamiliar with the process, it allows parties in foreign proceedings to gather evidence in the United States, and UEFA has been aggressively using it to pull back the curtain on FIFA’s inner workings. But FIFA’s response was anything but diplomatic. The organization did not simply…