PARIS, Sept 29 \u2014 Fifa president Gianni Infantino has opened the door to substantial increases in funding for the world governing body\u2019s 211 members, with the Fifa Council set to consider additional payments at its meeting on October 15.<\/p>\n
In a letter sent to the presidents of Fifa\u2019s six continental confederations on Monday, and seen by Agence Frannce-Presse, Infantino said he would support \u201cthe greatest level of additional funding that can responsibly be delivered\u201d, but cautioned that no figure currently under discussion represented an approved commitment.<\/p>\n
Infantino said the abandoned proposal to sell a slice of the World Cup commercial rights that brought calls for his resignation had been intended to generate additional money for football.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe recent commercial proposal, now withdrawn, was intended to enable Fifa to invest more in football,\u201d Infantino wrote.<\/p>\n
On September 18, two of Infantino\u2019s \u00a0critics, \u00a0European football chief Aleksander Ceferin and his counterpart at the North and Central American and Caribbean body, Victor Montagliani, said each of Fifa\u2019s member associations) should receive US$10 million (RM40.85 million) in the four years between 2027-2030.<\/p>\n
Infantino responded by suggesting he would match any other offers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will support the greatest level of additional funding that can responsibly be delivered through Fifa\u2019s proper governance process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Fifa confirmed in early September that Infantino will stand for president in an election next March, despite the backlash over his now-abandoned plan to bring private investment into the men\u2019s and women\u2019s World Cups.<\/p>\n
Infantino is not without friends \u2014 2034 World Cup hosts Saudi Arabia came out in support last month, with African football\u2019s governing body CAF and South America\u2019s Conmebol also supportive. \u2014 AFP\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS, Sept 29 \u2014 Fifa president Gianni Infantino has opened the door to substantial increases in funding for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[81235,99335,39676,85,46,78,105,285195,6866],"class_list":["post-630770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aleksander-ceferin","tag-fifa-council","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-sports","tag-victor-montagliani","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630770","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=630770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}