You\u2019ve got to admire the Fifa president\u2019s chutzpah in trying to flog off football\u2019s greatest prize. If only Uefa wasn\u2019t being so pesky about it all<\/p>\n
Imagine a plan so distasteful that even the Americans and a Middle Eastern nepo-royal football boss can\u2019t be doing with it. Such is the status of Fifa president Gianni Infantino\u2019s scheme to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors<\/a>. More historically, perhaps, the 55 nations that make up Uefa have reacted to this horror show by voting unanimously to boycott Fifa tournaments<\/a>, including World Cups, if Infantino presses ahead. That would mean Spain and Portugal boycotting their own men\u2019s World Cup next time around, which you\u2019d think \u2013 not to call it too soon \u2013 would come off as slightly bad vibes.<\/p>\n A testing moment, then, for the haunted cue-ball. Again. Can it really already be time to turn to Infantino once more, even after he appeared in this spot only on Tuesday<\/a>, after his 15-page Instagram crash-out about his haters? Yes. Yes, I\u2019m afraid it can. Demanding the federations of the world sell off the World Cup to some fund led by Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law\u2019s brother<\/a> will regrettably draw attention to you in ways that will prove difficult to control. As indicated, the Fifa president\u2019s plan has contrived to appear vulgar to the North American confederation, Concacaf, as well as the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).<\/p>\n Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You\u2019ve got to admire the Fifa president\u2019s chutzpah in trying to flog off football\u2019s greatest prize. If only Uefa wasn\u2019t being so pesky about it all Imagine a plan so distasteful that even the Americans and a Middle Eastern nepo-royal football boss can\u2019t be doing with it. Such is the status of Fifa president Gianni … 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-76789","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\/76789","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=76789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}