{"id":567203,"date":"2026-07-30T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/567203\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:04:09","slug":"uefa-will-boycott-fifa-world-cup-if-kushner-backed-investment-plan-moves-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/567203\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Will Boycott FIFA World Cup If Kushner-Backed Investment Plan Moves Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topline<\/p>\n<p class=\"topline-summary\">The 55 European member associations within UEFA, the European governing body for soccer, voted unanimously to boycott FIFA after an emergency meeting on Thursday, preparing to take a drastic action if it moves forward with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zacharyfolk\/2026\/07\/29\/fifa-head-sets-deadline-for-members-to-claim-20-million-in-kushner-backed-world-cup-plan\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zacharyfolk\/2026\/07\/29\/fifa-head-sets-deadline-for-members-to-claim-20-million-in-kushner-backed-world-cup-plan\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plans <\/a>to sell minority stakes in its World Cup tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 55 member associations in UEFA approved the boycott unanimously on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Bongarts\/Getty ImagesKey Facts<\/p>\n<p class=\"timeline-fact\">In a statement released on Thursday, UEFA said that no teams from its 55 member associations would not participate in any FIFA tournament \u201cso long as these proposals remain alive,\u201d which would include the World Cups for men and women&#8217;s teams, as well as the Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"timeline-fact\">The European confederation said it would continue to boycott \u201cunless this proposal is abandoned in its entirety,\u201d and it was given \u201cbinding assurances\u201d the international body would not pursue private ownership again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"timeline-fact\">The plan to sell roughly 20% in stakes of a new commercial venture controlled by FIFA is being pushed by FIFA president Gianni Infantino, the organization\u2019s president who has faced criticism for perceived closeness to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"timeline-fact\">FIFA said it is being advised on the plan by JPMorgan, and a fund created by Josh Kushner\u2019s Thrive Capital would serve as the lead investor (Josh Kushner\u2019s brother Jared is married to Trump\u2019s daughter, Ivanka).<\/p>\n<p class=\"timeline-fact\">This is a breaking story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline The 55 European member associations within UEFA, the European governing body for soccer, voted unanimously to boycott&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19712,256671,39676,85,46,105,28724],"class_list":["post-567203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-boycott","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-uefa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}