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LBC callers react: European teams to boycott World Cup to fight FIFA sell-off
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15:32Now PlayingEngland and Uefa’s other European members will boycott Fifa tournaments if Gianni Infantino presses ahead with controversial plans to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors.
Infantino told the organisation’s 211 member associations they have until 19 September to back the plan or face financial consequences.
But without Europe’s leading teams, any World Cup investment scheme would be severely weakened.
FIFA issued details of its plans to create FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) after media reports from The Times and the Financial Times were published on Tuesday afternoon.
FFE would be owned and controlled by FIFA, the global body said, but the intention is to sell minority stakes to private investors.
The lead investor is proposed to be Thrive Eternal, a company founded by Joshua Kushner, the brother of United States President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
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