FIFA said its leadership had reaffirmed its full support for president Gianni Infantino, while acknowledging that the handling of the withdrawn proposal to sell commercial rights linked to the World Cup should have been different.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino's abandoned proposal to sell World Cup stakes has caused significant internal division. Influential figures are distancing themselves from the…

Infantino was last week forced to scrap a proposal to make stakes in FIFA's commercial and event operations available for private investment

Fifa president hopes to find a way out of World Cup sale plan fiasco