(Bloomberg) -- The uproar roiling international football in the wake of FIFA’s plans to sell a stake in its new media division got its start in secret talks last year, when the chief of the sport’s international body met with Joshua Kushner, the venture capitalist with family ties to President Donald Trump.

FIFA has a complex plan to sell chunks of its commercial rights to the World Cup to minority investors, including a firm run by Joshua Kushner, the brother of Jared Kushner.

Plans for selling stakes in FIFA to private investors have emerged under a highly controversial scheme, with UEFA condemning the proposals