{"id":73237,"date":"2026-08-06T18:57:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/73237\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:57:04","slug":"infantino-clings-to-job-after-apology-for-world-cup-sale-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/73237\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino clings to job after apology for World Cup sale proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Infantino clings to job after apology for World Cup sale proposal\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xmYpSNJViM0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nInfantino clings to job after apology for World Cup sale proposal<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCan Fifa&#8217;s president Gianni Infantino cling on? <\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>Infantino has apologised for his ill-fated proposal to sell stakes in the World Cup and has won the support from Fifa\u2019s board to stay on as president.<\/p>\n<p>But European football&#8217;s governing body is still threatening to boycott the World Cup unless he quits, while the English FA has now sent a letter to Fifa officially withdrawing their support for him.<\/p>\n<p>Fifa now promises the proposal is \u201coff the table\u201d, but the heat is still on for Infantino. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow 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":"Infantino clings to job after apology for World Cup sale proposal Can Fifa&#8217;s president Gianni Infantino cling on?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[366,352,365,2234,60511,60507,2872,60508,59228,57589,60509,60510,18709,60512,60513,354,353,341,2236,2237,58064,235],"class_list":["post-73237","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-infantino","tag-fifa-sale","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-giani","tag-giani-infantino","tag-gianni","tag-giannni-infantino","tag-infanti","tag-infantino","tag-infantino-sale","tag-infantino-world","tag-international-news","tag-latest-news","tag-uk-news","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2026","tag-world-cup-sale","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73237","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=73237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}