(FILES) FIFA president Gianni Infantino looks on during a meeting with the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on November 17, 2025. FIFA president Gianni Infantino has lost the “confidence” of the UEFA, European football’s governing body, it said in a statement on August 1, 2026, after his plan to allow private investment in the World Cup was withdrawn following a global backlash. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has called an emergency meeting of senior staff in Rabat, Morocco, amid growing pressure over the organisation’s abandoned plan to bring private investment into a company responsible for running its tournaments.
The meeting, understood to have been scheduled after the weekend, will involve FIFA secretary general Mattias Grafstrom and members of the organisation’s management board.
The development follows comments from former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, FIFA’s chief of global football development, who broke his silence over the controversial FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal.
Wenger said he was “not involved” in plans to seek private investment in FFE, while describing FIFA’s decision to abandon the project as “absolutely necessary and beyond question”.
