Fifa president Gianni Infantino sought support \u2060from the Trump \u2060administration amid mounting criticism \u2060after his abandoned plan to sell a stake in World Cup commercial rights, the New York Post said on Monday, citing sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n
European football body Uefa, meanwhile, has threatened football\u2019s governing body with legal action over Infantino\u2019s failed plan, and said any potential evidence should not be destroyed.<\/p>\n
And in more bad news for the Fifa chief, the English Football Association is set to write to Infantino withdrawing its support amid the fallout, the Football Association of Wales (FAW) has already withdrawn its support and German Football Federation (DFB) managing director Andreas Rettig said the relationship between the association and football\u2019s governing body was beyond repair.<\/p>\n
The \u200cPost reported that Infantino had repeatedly tried and failed to reach United States President Donald Trump by phone since the proposal collapsed on Friday, and that the Fifa chief felt \u201cisolated\u201d by an avalanche of negative media coverage.<\/p>\n
The Post reported \u2060that Infantino scheduled private talks with Secretary of State Marco \u200cRubio, with two sources familiar with the matter confirming that the Fifa boss will hold a call \u200cwith America\u2019s top diplomat, though another official has since denied that talks would proceed.<\/p>\n
Infantino\u2019s secretive proposal to raise US$4.2 billion from investors including the New York investment firm of Joshua Kushner was dropped early on Saturday, days after the revelation in media reports provoked a global furore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifa president Gianni Infantino sought support \u2060from the Trump \u2060administration amid mounting criticism \u2060after his abandoned plan to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[414211,323762,64,63,414214,414208,414213,414212,13201,596,414209,414210,13202,1025,85,30835,21418,116073],"class_list":["post-842055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-andreas-rettig","tag-andy-burnham","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-british-prime-minister","tag-dfb","tag-european-body-uefa","tag-faw","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-football-association-of-wales","tag-german-football-federation","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-new-york","tag-sports","tag-uefa","tag-world-cup","tag-zurich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}