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Infantino's FIFA future in jeopardy after private equity gamble backfires

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Aug 1 : FIFA president Gianni Infantino, hitherto untouchable at the helm of soccer's global governing body, suffered a crushing blow on Friday when his bold reach for private equity riches was brought to an end in the face of a ferocious backlash.

A FIFA statement, attributed to Infantino, conceded that the proposal to create a commercial entity to run the World Cup and other tournaments, 20 per cent of which would be sold to private investors, was divisive and dead in the water.

The concession ended three days of civil war in the football world which peaked when Europe's UEFA, the richest and most influential of soccer's six regional confederations, announced a boycott of all FIFA events until the proposal was ditched.

The plan was Infantino's baby and its demise less than two weeks after the most lucrative World Cup in history has left the 56-year-old Swiss administrator isolated at the top of an organisation he had been planning to run for another 4-1/2 years.

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The stake sale proposal was always aimed squarely at the 211 national soccer federations who will vote, many of which rely on FIFA funding to make ends meet and have done well under Infantino's patronage.

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The concession ended three days of civil war in the football world which peaked when Europe's UEFA, the richest and most influential of soccer's six regional confederations, announced a boycott of all FIFA events until the proposal was ditched.
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"I think what has happened here is that fame appears to have gone a little bit to Gianni's head and his relationship with Donald Trump during that World Cup is nothing more than astounding," the Northern Irishman told the BBC this week.
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Infantino, who took over at FIFA in 2016 after a corruption scandal had ended Sepp Blatter's 17-year reign as president, had frequently exasperated those around him with his independent leadership style, sources told Reuters.

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