GENEVA (AP) — FIFA's removal of the senior official who said Gianni Infantino deceived staff with his World Cup sell-off plan was unacceptable, Norway soccer president Lise Klaveness said on Tuesday while urging other leaders at the governing body to resist potentially damaging orders.
The firing of FIFA chief operating officer Kevin Lamour late Monday came 17 days after his statement to the ***** ociated Press criticizing Infantino's $20 billion private equity project that helped to end it hours later.
"Now he is thrown out and we are supposed to move on. It's unacceptable, it's management by fear," Klaveness told the AP in a telephone interview, describing Lamour as "the best football administrator I have ever met."
"Now we also have to call upon FIFA leadership and the administration to not submit to orders you know are not in the interests of football," Klaveness added, especially targeting FIFA secretary general Mattias Grafström.
She is a former Norway international player, a judge in Oslo and an elected executive committee member at European soccer body UEFA who has built on her country's long-held reputation as a champion of good governance in soccer.

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