UEFA asked a U.S. court for FIFA documents in a planned Swiss criminal case against Gianni Infantino. [1] Reuters filed the August request. [1] This paper already printed that unfiled complaint at position 40. Monday still has no Zurich stamp, no prosecutor's receipt, and no named Swiss docket number.

Planned is not filed. A discovery ask in an American courtroom is not an indictment in Zurich. The August request has sat for nearly three weeks without ripening into a charge, which is itself the story: UEFA wants paper, and the paper has not become a case.

A second Infantino line does not make a second case. Position 40 owns the stamp question, and this brief exists so the sports desk does not accidentally mint a prosecution out of a document fight. UEFA's ask runs through American discovery rules because FIFA banks and servers touch U.S. jurisdiction. Swiss prosecutors have not said whether the paper, once produced, becomes a case. Until they do, the file is a request, not a charge.

Until Swiss prosecutors speak, the file is a request, not a charge. FIFA banks touch U.S. jurisdiction. This brief exists so sports copy does not mint a case.

Planned remains the honest adjective. Reuters dated the paper chase to August, and Monday did not convert it into a charge sheet. Gianni Infantino is named in a request, not in a Swiss caption. Cross-read position 40 rather than counting two files.
Monday did not mint a Swiss case. Planned remains the honest adjective. Monday did not convert August paper into a charge sheet.

Monday did not mint a Swiss case. Planned remains the honest adjective. Monday's Infantino brief still has no Swiss stamp.

-- CHARLES ASHFORD, London