Vancouver police have reportedly denied a request for the head of FIFA to be given a level of police escort on par with U.S. presidents.
Gianni Infantino, the Trump-friendly head of soccer’s international governing body, will be in the Canadian city this week for meetings ahead of the World Cup, which will take place over several weeks this summer in Vancouver and 15 other sites in North America.
But Infantino will not be afforded special mobility around the city because he is not a head of state or the pope.
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