UEFA Boss Ceferin Says Trust in World Football Remains Broken After FIFA Investment Row
Ceferin urged unity and transparency after FIFA dropped its private-investment plan, saying trust in the sport has not returned.
- On Wednesday, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin addressed the Portugal Football Summit, stating that trust in world football remains broken following the collapse of FIFA's controversial private investment plan.
- The abandoned scheme sought to sell a 20 per cent stake in FIFA's commercial rights, including the World Cup, to private investors, prompting fierce opposition from UEFA and other confederations in July.
- "Trust in our sport rests on three pillars: unity, transparency, and governance," Ceferin said, noting that in recent times these principles were disregarded by those sworn to protect them.
- FIFA President Gianni Infantino wrote to the presidents of all 211 member associations, offering an independent review of FIFA's governance framework for strategic initiatives to address the criticism.
- Infantino remains under mounting pressure ahead of next year's presidential election, as his letter has failed to reassure several federations that voiced criticism regarding the private equity proposal.
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The President of the European Football Union (UEFA) Aleksandar Ceferin said that it is necessary to restore unity and trust damaged by the failed plan of the President of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Gianni Infantino to sell the commercial rights of the World Cup.
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GENEVA (AP) — European soccer leader Aleksander Ceferin said Wednesday it is “our work” to repair the unity and trust broken by FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s failed World Cup sell-off plan. The UEFA president, in rare public comments two months into the divisive global rift in soccer, did not cite Infantino by name but said...
Ceferin cites need to repair trust broken by Infantino’s FIFA World Cup plan
Ceferin led UEFA’s backlash in July that helped stop Infantino’s plan to sell at least 20% of FIFA’s future commercial rights for USD 4.2 billion to investors led by Josh Kushner, the brother of U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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GENEVA (AP) — European soccer leader Aleksander Ceferin said Wednesday it is “our work” to repair the unity and trust broken by FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s failed World Cup sell-off plan . The UEFA president, in rare
European soccer's Ceferin cites need to repair trust broken by Infantino's FIFA World Cup plan
European soccer leader Aleksander Ceferin says it is “our work” to repair the unity and trust broken by FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s failed World Cup sell-off plan
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