FIFA COO Lamour says staff deceived over Infantino’s World Cup plan

Senior FIFA executive, Kevin Lamour, says staff were deceived over President Gianni Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan.

FIFA’s chief operating officer said its staff were deceived by their President Gianni Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan, and suggested the project must not go ahead.

Zurich-based executive Kevin Lamour all but invited Infantino to fire him in a statement to the news agency The Associated Press on Friday that defended his colleagues amid intense fallout from the FIFA boss’s plan to sell stakes in future World Cup profits to private equity funds.

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