Uefa has 'lost confidence' in Fifa leadership as investment plan scrapped

Uefa has lost confidence in the current Fifa leadership of Gianni Infantino as the fallout from the scrapped controversial investment plan intensified.

Infantino’s World Cup crisis: UEFA has ‘lost confidence’ in FIFA leadership

UEFA, who were the strongest opponents of FIFA's plan, slam the Gianni Infantino-led governing body despite standdown.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino scraps controversial World Cup investment plan

FIFA President Gianni Infantino was met with unprecedented backlash following his proposal for the structural reform of the World Cup. Under pressure, he announced that he was withdrawing his plan to sell part of the tournament to private investors. This proposal caused quite a stir internally and even led some members of his team to resign in protest.

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Uefa declares loss of confidence in Gianni Infantino as backlash to cancelled World Cup sell-off plan builds

Uefa slammed the current Fifa leadership for ‘failing to deliver’ on promises made when Infantino was elected and for the ‘shabby, back room’ deal

By Flo Clifford

UEFA welcomes end of 'shabby' investor deal but trust in FIFA gone

UEFA has welcomed that FIFA has abandoned its plan allowing investors to acquire stakes in the World Cup but hit out hard at the governing body and its president, Gianni Infantino, again. "The current FIFA leadership has not only lost UEFA’s confidence but also that of many other members of the football family," a strong-worded statement on Saturday said.

FIFA Chief Gianni Infantino on the Ropes as He Ditches Controversial $20 Billion Private Investment Plan

Gianni Infantino, the embattled president of soccer’s governing body FIFA, has abandoned his controversial plan to create a $20 billion company that would control the commercial rights to its events, principally the World Cup. In a statement released late Friday, Infantino said it had “become clear that the project has created divisions of a nature […]

By Leo Barraclough

No go for Infantino: How Fifa's World Cup private investment plan imploded

The planet's most powerful football administrator Gianni Infantino on Saturday yielded to the international collective when he pulled the plug on a plan to allow private investment in the World Cup. His proposals for world football's governing body Fifa to reform its commercial operations had sparked a furious backlash.

By RFI

‘Talk about taking football away from the people’ – Hoops boss Bradley blasts Gianni Infantino's now-axed World Cup plan

By Seán O'Connor

Fifa has scrapped $20 billion World Cup sell-off plan, New York Post reports

Fifa’s plan to sell a piece of its business empire to outside investors has collapsed following an open revolt by soccer officials worldwide and a major rift among top Fifa executives, the New York Post reported on Friday. The deal, in which Fifa had aimed to raise up to $4.2 billion by selling a roughly […]

FIFA abandons World Cup privatisation plan after fierce backlash

FIFA had proposed to set up a commercial subsidiary which would sell a 20 per cent stake in the World Cup to private investors.

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Infantino loses UEFA's 'confidence'

The body had threatened to boycott all FIFA competitions

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Infantino's FIFA drops $4.2B World Cup sell-off plan after revolt

FIFA has abandoned its controversial plan to sell a minority stake in the commercial rights to the World Cup after fierce opposition from regional football confederations exposed d...

FIFA scraps World Cup sell-off plan after resistance from members

Infantino says proposal had caused serious divisions in the World ‌football governing body.

Dutch football body happy with FIFA’s abandonment of World Cup commercialization plan

The Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) said Saturday it is pleased FIFA withdrew its controversial

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Uefa has ‘lost confidence’ in Fifa leadership

Uefa says it has lost confidence in Gianni Infantino's Fifa leadership as the fallout from the scrapped controversial investment plan intensifies.

By Emmanuel Tetteh