FIFA Sponsors on ‘Edge of Chairs’ Former Partner MasterCard Says
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The corruption scandal that has engulfed soccer’s governing body has put its sponsors on edge, the head of European sponsorship at former FIFA partner MasterCard Inc. said.
“What I certainly see is that it has certainly woken a few people up and it puts us always on the edge of our chairs to ensure that when we do these partnerships we look at the whole package,” Paul Meulendijk, Head of Sponsorship at MasterCard Europe, said in an interview in London.