{"id":76688,"date":"2026-07-29T03:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/concacaf-joins-criticism-of-fifa-plan-to-sell-off-world-cup-stakes-to-private-investors\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:55:07","slug":"concacaf-joins-criticism-of-fifa-plan-to-sell-off-world-cup-stakes-to-private-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/concacaf-joins-criticism-of-fifa-plan-to-sell-off-world-cup-stakes-to-private-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Concacaf joins criticism of Fifa plan to sell off World Cup stakes to private investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Association was unaware of Infantino\u2019s plans<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Members given 19 September deadline to opt in<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Concacaf has joined Uefa in criticising Fifa\u2019s plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors.<\/p>\n<p>In a strongly worded statement the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football expressed deep concerns about Fifa\u2019s governance and a lack of due process, revealing that they were unaware of the proposal to sell stakes in a new commercial entity that has been valued at $20bn (\u00a315bn) until reading about it in the media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/29\/concacaf-joins-criticism-of-fifa-infantino-plan-to-sell-off-world-cup-stakes-to-private-investors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Association was unaware of Infantino\u2019s plans Members given 19 September deadline to opt in Concacaf has joined Uefa in criticising Fifa\u2019s plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors. In a strongly worded statement the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football expressed deep concerns about Fifa\u2019s governance and &#8230; <a title=\"Concacaf joins criticism of Fifa plan to sell off World Cup stakes to private investors\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/concacaf-joins-criticism-of-fifa-plan-to-sell-off-world-cup-stakes-to-private-investors\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Concacaf joins criticism of Fifa plan to sell off World Cup stakes to private investors\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}