欧洲足球界领导人于周三齐聚一堂，时间紧迫，他们需要尽快确定一位候选人，并制定策略，试图将詹尼·因凡蒂诺赶下国际足联主席的职位。
European football leaders were gathering Wednesday with time pressing to find a candidate and shape their strategy for trying to oust Gianni Infantino as president of FIFA.
欧足联已召集其55个成员国联合会，于周四在柏林举行此前已安排的峰会。此次峰会正值欧洲努力推动为足球世界管理机构选出一位新领导人的关键时刻。
UEFA has called its 55 member federations to a previously scheduled summit on Thursday in Berlin that arrives in the midst of European efforts to get a new leader for football’s world body.
因凡蒂诺备受争议的世界杯私人投资计划——该计划于7月公布后数日内即告失败——促使欧足联采取行动，以应对对这位前雇员在国际足联日益强权的领导地位长期存在的疑虑。
Infantino’s divisive World Cup private investment plan – that failed within days of being revealed in July – pushed UEFA to act on longstanding mistrust of its former employee’s increasingly executive presidency at FIFA.
欧足联的长期计划还包括，准备在瑞士对因凡蒂诺提出刑事指控，指控其可能在世界杯出售协议中存在财务失当行为。此外，欧足联还已请求美国法院批准证据开示程序。“在某个阶段，国际足联的做法已经越界，我们希望将一切恢复到应有的轨道上，”欧足联秘书长特奥多尔·特奥多里迪斯上个月表示。
UEFA’s longer-term plans include preparing a criminal complaint against Infantino in Switzerland for possible financial mismanagement in the World Cup sell-off deal. It has asked courts in the United States to authorise discovery of evidence“Somewhere along the way things went too far with FIFA, and we’re looking to put things back where they belong,” UEFA general-secretary Theodore Theodoridis said last month.
欧洲55个成员国占国际足联211个成员国联合会总数的四分之一以上，这些国家均有权参加将于3月18日在摩洛哥拉巴特举行的选举。美联社的调查显示，因凡蒂诺目前已有约90张选票承诺支持——尽管此时任何潜在的竞争对手都尚未确定。
Europe’s 55 count for more than a quarter of FIFA’s 211 member federations that can vote in the election on March 18 in Rabat, Morocco. Research by The Associated Press news agency suggests Infantino already has about 90 votes pledged – albeit before any potential opponent is known.
然而，欧足联内部也并非铁板一块。因凡蒂诺已获得阿塞拜疆（其一位密切助手所在国）和拉脱维亚的支持。周三，他还在捷克首都布拉格与足球界及政府官员举行了会面。
Still, UEFA is not a united bloc. Infantino has support promised from Azerbaijan, the home country of a close aide, and Latvia. On Wednesday he met with football and government officials in the Czech capital Prague.
首先，欧足联及其全球盟友需要在11月18日的参选截止日期前，就至少一位挑战因凡蒂诺的候选人达成一致。哪些足球界领导人被视为潜在候选人？
First, UEFA and its allies worldwide need to agree on at least one candidate to challenge Infantino by the November 18 deadline to enter the race. Which football leaders have been seen as potential candidates?
今年8月，欧足联主席亚历山大·切费林与来自亚洲和北美的其他国际足联副主席一同谴责因凡蒂诺，称其在世界杯出售计划问题上存在欺骗行为并破坏了信任。
UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin was joined in August by his fellow FIFA vice presidents from Asia and North America in denouncing Infantino for deception and breach of trust over the World Cup sell-off plan.
然而，无论是切费林，还是亚足联和北中北美及加勒比海足联的对应负责人——巴林的谢赫·萨尔曼·本·易卜拉欣·阿勒哈利法和加拿大的维克多·蒙塔利亚尼——目前似乎都不会出现在国际足联的候选人名单中。
Still, neither Ceferin nor his counterparts at the AFC and CONCACAF, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain and Victor Montagliani of Canada, currently look set to be on the FIFA ballot.
切费林长期以来一直否认自己会参选国际足联主席，尽管他上个月在希腊举行的欧足联会议上表示，有“非常非常”多的潜在候选人。
Ceferin has long dismissed any talk of himself running to lead FIFA, though he said last month at UEFA meetings in Greece there were “many, many” potential candidates.
蒙塔利亚尼预计将专注于今年2月在北中北美及加勒比海足联的连任竞选。
Montagliani is expected to focus on his own re-election at CONCACAF in February.
谢赫·萨尔曼此前曾是因凡蒂诺在国际足联选举中的对手。在2016年2月那场有五名候选人的竞选中，他曾是热门人选，但最终因凡蒂诺获胜。
Sheikh Salman has been Infantino’s FIFA election opponent before. He had been favourite in a five-man campaign that Infantino eventually won in February 2016.
外界猜测经常指向巴黎圣日耳曼主席纳赛尔·阿尔-赫拉伊菲，他是切费林的亲密盟友。这位卡塔尔籍的欧足联执行委员会成员上周在他领导的影响力巨大的欧洲足球俱乐部组织的一次会议上，排除了自己参选的可能性。
Speculation has often pointed to Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, a close ally of Ceferin. The Qatari member of UEFA’s executive committee ruled himself out last week at a meeting of the influential European Football Clubs group he leads.
因凡蒂诺正在柏林参加欧足联每两年举行一次的成员协会高层管理人员会议，会议将讨论政策、战略以及国际足球赛事等议题。
Infantino is part of UEFA’s focus in Berlin for the biennial business meeting of top executives from its member federations, which can debate policy, strategy and international football competitions.
此次会议预计将讨论有关提升国际足联透明度的提案，以及一位愿意致力于这些改革的总统候选人。
The meeting is expected to discuss proposals for a more transparent FIFA and a presidential candidate willing to commit to those reforms.