FIFA said on Wednesday it had apologized to its member associations for mistakes made over its abandoned proposal to sell commercial rights linked to the World

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

Secretary-General Mattias Grafstrom sent a message to staff lamenting the “sad and reproachable series of events” that led to a stake sale plan being dropped.

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