{"id":71736,"date":"2026-08-04T09:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/71736\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:48:38","slug":"fifa-secretary-general-mattias-grafstrom-condemns-infantinos-sell-off-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/71736\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA secretary general Mattias Grafstrom condemns Infantino&#8217;s sell-off plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"FIFA secretary general Mattias Grafstrom condemns Infantino&#039;s sell-off plan\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TQSuvM4_ooQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFIFA secretary general Mattias Grafstrom condemns Infantino&#8217;s sell-off plan<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFIFA secretary general Mattias Grafstrom has called the abandoned World Cup sell-plan a &#8220;sad and reproachable series of events&#8221;, which is &#8220;difficult to comprehend and accept&#8221;, in an internal staff message obtained by Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>Grafstrom runs the administration and was brought across from UEFA when Gianni Infantino rose to the FIFA presidency 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The staff email did not directly reference Infantino and the calls for his departure from European FAs for secretly planning to sell shares in a new World Cup venture to private investors called FIFA Forward Enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: 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 #football #sport #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<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA secretary general Mattias Grafstrom condemns Infantino&#8217;s sell-off plan FIFA secretary general Mattias Grafstrom has called the abandoned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[59445,26411,2234,59444,2241,25753,18709,59443,31,59447,1520,296,12493,1194,4382,23071,59446,178,235],"class_list":["post-71736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-arsene","tag-cup","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-latest","tag-football","tag-full-coverage","tag-infantino","tag-infantino-latest","tag-news","tag-rob-harris-news","tag-sky","tag-sky-news","tag-sky-sports","tag-sport","tag-sports-news","tag-uefa","tag-wenger","tag-world","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117036664911248411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71736","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=71736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}