{"id":69068,"date":"2026-07-29T19:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/69068\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:09:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:09:56","slug":"will-the-fifa-world-cup-be-sold-off-infantinos-plan-sparks-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/69068\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Fifa World Cup be sold off? Infantino\u2019s plan sparks fury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Will the Fifa World Cup be sold off? Infantino\u2019s plan sparks fury\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ipfUn1GlMIk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWill the Fifa World Cup be sold off? Infantino\u2019s plan sparks fury<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGianni Infantino is trying to sell his World Cup sell-off plan to Fifa&#8217;s member nations, offering them huge sums of money, despite a growing backlash.<\/p>\n<p>The Fifa boss has given the organisation\u2019s 211 member associations 53 days to sign up to his plan. <\/p>\n<p>If they do, he says they&#8217;ll each get up to $40 million. <\/p>\n<p>His proposals to create a Fifa subsidiary, 20 per cent owned by private investors, has sparked an outcry in the football world. <\/p>\n<p>European football&#8217;s governing body Uefa has accused Fifa of using the sport to enrich itself and its friends.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nGet more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/<br \/>\nSubscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<br \/>\nFollow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will the Fifa World Cup be sold off? Infantino\u2019s plan sparks fury Gianni Infantino is trying to sell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[366,352,365,2234,2872,2241,25291,18709,57501,57502,3782,2236,2237,57500,40612,57499],"class_list":["post-69068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-channel-4-news","tag-channel-4","tag-channel-4-news","tag-channel4","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-football","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-infantino","tag-infantino-fifa","tag-infantino-sells-world-cup","tag-soccer","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2026","tag-world-cup-for-sale","tag-world-cup-news","tag-world-cup-sell"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117004881270141927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69068","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=69068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}