{"id":70769,"date":"2026-08-01T21:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/70769\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:00:15","slug":"infantino-under-pressure-from-football-bodies-over-fifas-failed-world-cup-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/70769\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino under pressure from football bodies over FIFA&#8217;s failed World Cup plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Infantino under pressure from football bodies over FIFA&#039;s failed World Cup plan\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZvULcNQJdXU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nInfantino under pressure from football bodies over FIFA&#8217;s failed World Cup plan<br \/>\n<br \/>\nEmbattled FIFA President Gianni Infantino is facing a difficult choice &#8211; resign or be subjected to a vote of no confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Europe&#8217;s football governing body &#8211; UEFA &#8211; has confirmed that it has lost confidence in him and called for a leadership review. <\/p>\n<p>That message was swiftly backed by both the English and Welsh football associations, and echoed by football bosses in North and Central America and the Caribbean &#8211; though Infantino has received the backing of the Qatari and Moroccan football federations.<\/p>\n<p>It all follows his failed plans to sell shares in the World Cup to private investors.<\/p>\n<p>Read the latest: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/world-cup-latest-european-nations-agree-to-boycott-fifa-competitions-over-controversial-sell-off-plan-13568011<\/p>\n<p>#fifa #worldcup #infantino #gianniinfantino #concacaf #skynews <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Why not listen to one of our podcasts? This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy or Ed Conway&#8217;s Stuff Matters, available here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/stuff-matters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Infantino under pressure from football bodies over FIFA&#8217;s failed World Cup plan Embattled FIFA President Gianni Infantino is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[58750,58751,58749,51538,14,29152,2234,46862,40297,58790,25291,18709,31,1520,296,4382,48,23071,258,8062,2236,3513],"class_list":["post-70769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-central-america-and-caribbean-association-football","tag-concacaf","tag-confederation-of-north","tag-coverage","tag-donald-trump","tag-fa","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-news","tag-fifa-president","tag-football-association","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-infantino","tag-news","tag-sky","tag-sky-news","tag-sports-news","tag-trump","tag-uefa","tag-us-news","tag-watch","tag-world-cup","tag-youtube"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117022292785428248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70769","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=70769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}