FIFA World Cup plan fallout: AFC reacts as Infantino scraps investment push
- Asian Football Confederation says FIFA future must be ‘shaped through proper consultation’ after World Cup plan fallout.
- Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa has welcomed FIFA’s decision to walk back plans to sell a stake in the World Cup and stressed the need to discuss all such moves with transparency in the future.
- FIFA’s plan was to raise up to $4.2bn by selling about a 20 percent stake to private investors in a new unit that would run FIFA events, including the World Cup.
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- Asian Football Confederation says FIFA future must be ‘shaped through proper consultation’ after World Cup plan fallout.
- Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa has welcomed FIFA’s decision to walk back plans to sell a stake in the World Cup and stressed the need to discuss all such moves with transparency in the future.
- FIFA’s plan was to raise up to $4.2bn by selling about a 20 percent stake to private investors in a new unit that would run FIFA events, including the World Cup.
Sources: Al Jazeera