FIFA’s Infantino set for crunch meeting after World Cup selloff crisis

Gianni Infantino will hold a crisis meeting with top FIFA officials in Morocco on Wednesday as ⁠he looks to shore up his position in ⁠the wake of the collapse of his gambit to sell off commercial rights to the World Cup.The FIFA president has been the subject of a torrent of criticism, and no small amount of personal abuse, since he floated the idea of the new commercial rights body to FIFA’s 211 member associations last week.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4UEFA’s threatened legal action against Infantino and FIFA: What we knowlist 2 of 4Infantino’s FIFA World Cup fallout heads to mutiny as more staff break ranklist 3 of 4Ex-Arsenal boss Wenger was ‘not aware’ of Infantino’s FIFA planlist 4 of 4UEFA confirms legal letter served to FIFA after Infantino’s World Cup planend of listThe proposed sale of 20% of the ⁠body to private investment to raise $4.2bn, and the involvement of a company with family links to United States President Donald Trump, were just the most egregious flaws in the plan for its many critics.Infantino’s backdown last Friday has done little to assuage those critics, most notably the European confederation UEFA, which accused him of selling the soul o...