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.Published On 31 Jul 202631 Jul 2026FIFA’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.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Why is UEFA threatening FIFA boycott? Infantino’s World Cup plan explainedlist 2 of 4FIFA defiant over World Cup investment plan: ‘nobody is selling football’list 3 of 4AFC ‘stands in solidarity’ with UEFA and CONCACAF over FIFA World Cup planslist 4 of 4Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in the FIFA World Cup: All to knowend of listLamour wrote that staff were “deceived” by Infantino’s lack of openness in planning the sale over recent months and “deserve better than contempt and intimidation.”“It is the project of one person,” Lamour, a longtime ...