{"id":68491,"date":"2026-07-28T21:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/68491\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:39:23","slug":"pm-hits-out-at-fifas-world-cup-private-investment-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/68491\/","title":{"rendered":"PM hits out at Fifa&#8217;s World Cup private investment plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"PM hits out at Fifa&#039;s World Cup private investment plan\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zDRCu2hUoJM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nPM hits out at Fifa&#8217;s World Cup private investment plan<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPrime Minister Andy Burnham has criticised Fifa after the football body confirmed plans to set up a private company to run the World Cup and its other tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>Fifa President Gianni Infantino is seeking to create a $20bn (about \u00a314.93 bn) company which would run the global tournament with private investors, including the Kushner family, who have links to US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The company, named Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE), would lead to a significant increase in football development funding to national associations and bring the total spending on development to more than \u00a310bn (\u00a37.5bn) in the next four years, Fifa has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Thrive Eternal, a company launched in April by Joshua Kushner, the brother of Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, would lead the proposed investor group for FFE if the proposal is given the green light.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram:   \/ itvnews<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook:   \/ itvnews<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X:   \/ itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PM hits out at Fifa&#8217;s World Cup private investment plan Prime Minister Andy Burnham has criticised Fifa after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[24432,26411,2234,2241,18709,380,379,425,247,3782,48,23071,178],"class_list":["post-68491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-burnham","tag-cup","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-infantino","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-money","tag-politics","tag-soccer","tag-trump","tag-uefa","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116999867778593352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}