{"id":76784,"date":"2026-07-31T05:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/infantino-increasingly-embattled-after-senior-adviser-resigns-over-world-cup-sell-off-plans\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T05:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:55:18","slug":"infantino-increasingly-embattled-after-senior-adviser-resigns-over-world-cup-sell-off-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/infantino-increasingly-embattled-after-senior-adviser-resigns-over-world-cup-sell-off-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino increasingly embattled after senior adviser resigns over World Cup sell-off plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Infantino\u2019s role as president under increasing pressure<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>143 of Fifa\u2019s 211 members now stand against scheme<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gianni Infantino\u2019s authority has been dealt a fresh blow after Carlos Cordeiro, one of his senior advisers, resigned with immediate effect in protest at proposals to sell a stake in the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest embarrassment for Infantino, who saw European FAs threaten to boycott future Fifa tournaments on Thursday, the former US Soccer chief Cordeiro criticised \u201ca bad deal for football\u201d and pointed out that the global governing body already sits on huge amounts of debt-free reserves.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/31\/fifa-world-cup-privatisation-consultation-sell-off-plan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infantino\u2019s role as president under increasing pressure 143 of Fifa\u2019s 211 members now stand against scheme Gianni Infantino\u2019s authority has been dealt a fresh blow after Carlos Cordeiro, one of his senior advisers, resigned with immediate effect in protest at proposals to sell a stake in the World Cup. In the latest embarrassment for Infantino, &#8230; <a title=\"Infantino increasingly embattled after senior adviser resigns over World Cup sell-off plans\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/infantino-increasingly-embattled-after-senior-adviser-resigns-over-world-cup-sell-off-plans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Infantino increasingly embattled after senior adviser resigns over World Cup sell-off plans\">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-76784","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\/76784","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=76784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}