FIFA abandons Infantino’s monetisation plan
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Gianni Infantino's FIFA presidency is on life support after his abandoned attempt to sell a stake of the World Cup to private equity draws international outrage.
UEFA said Saturday it had lost confidence in FIFA's leadership despite President Gianni Infantino's decision to abandon his plan to invite private investors into a new commercial venture tied to the World Cup.
BBC Sport's Simon Stone reflects on the unravelling of Gianni Infantino's plans to sell off stakes in Fifa competitions.
The dramatic fallout from Gianni Infantino's scrapped proposal has exposed growing unease within world soccer over his leadership style.
Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell off part of the World Cup has backfired and has now been scrapped. Following this summer’s tournament in North America, it emerged that Infantino was looking for private investors to buy a stake in the competition for somewhere around $20bn.
UEFA says it and “other members of the football family” have lost confidence in Gianni Infantino, accusing the FIFA President of a “shabby, back room, opaque” deal after plans to sell a stake in its competitions were abandoned.
Successfully stopping Gianni Infantino’s FIFA plan to sell World Cup profits to private investors was the first half of a high-stakes game in global soccer politics. The second half kicked
Uefa has lost confidence in the current Fifa leadership of Gianni Infantino as the fallout from the scrapped controversial investment plan intensified.
UEFA said it and its 55 members will boycott FIFA competitions, rejecting FIFA's proposed plan to sell stakes to private investors, the European soccer governing body confirmed on Thursday. Concacaf,
As pressure mounted on FIFA President Gianni Infantino and his plan to sell World Cup profits to private equity, the organization canceled the project.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino's World Cup privatization plan faced backlash from UEFA, CONCACAF, Asian Football Confederation, and within FIFA.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino is in the eye of a storm after his attempt to sell stakes in the World Cup. If he goes, who comes in?