Infantino to Chair FIFA Council Meeting as Critics Push to Oust Him
UEFA leaders seek answers on his withdrawn $4.2 billion private investment plan and say he has not addressed governance concerns.
- On Thursday in Zurich, FIFA President Gianni Infantino faces the 37-member FIFA Council for the first time since his secretive World Cup stake-sale plan collapsed 11 weeks ago.
- Infantino's proposal to sell a 20% stake in a commercial subsidiary to investors led by Joshua Kushner was abandoned shortly after its July announcement, sparking intense criticism from regional confederations.
- To counter UEFA's call for a $10 million payment, Infantino plans to propose $15 million in additional funding per member federation for the 2027-2030 cycle. UEFA lawyers claim the previously planned $4.2 billion valuation was "fraudulently off-market."
- Council members will review FIFA's disciplinary procedures and governance standards, including the controversial Peace Prize awarded to U.S. President Donald Trump, as powerful figures seek to curb Infantino's powers.
- Candidates must submit nominations by November 18 for the March 2027 election in Rabat, Morocco, where Infantino seeks a fourth term despite calls for his resignation from regional confederations.
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UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin stormed out of the FIFA Council meeting in Zurich without comment.
Europe's football officials, even after an apology from Gianni Infantino at the FIFA Council meeting, hold on to their resignation from the President of the World Football Association. In the several-hour meeting, the FIFA boss was confronted with many questions. Infantino had promised an answer on all topics, reported English FIFA vice-president Debbie Hewitt. In the end, Europe's representatives moved disappointed by then.
Infantino offers apology but 'no answers' at FIFA meeting over World Cup plan
"We asked a great many critical questions, but there were no satisfactory answers from my point of view," said Bernd Neuendorf, the head of the German Football Association (DFB), who is also a member of the FIFA Council. Neuendorf was speaking after the Council met behind closed doors at the body's Zurich headquarters, where Infantino's FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal was one of the main topics on the agenda. Infantino has been under seve…
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For three and a half hours, Fifa chairman Gianni Infantino was grilled by his board colleagues. The answer was not satisfactory. "Nothing has changed," says Debbie Hewitt, chairman of the English Football Association.
Fifa still refusing to share World Cup sell-off papers, says FA chair
Football Association chair Debbie Hewitt says the Fifa Council is still being denied full transparency over Gianni Infantino’s aborted World Cup sell-off plan. Infantino apologised to the Council today as it met for the first time since controversy erupted over Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE), a new private company Infantino lined up investors for without telling the governing body’s supposed steering committee. But Hewitt said she hadn’t changed …
In a meeting that was not enough to calm the storm, Gianni Invantino faced mounting pressures from prominent officials in the .Viva, amid demands for disclosure of information about the World Cup rights plan.
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