FIFA $20bn plan to privatize World Cup, UEFA threatens boycott
UEFA is considering a boycott of FIFA tournaments, including the World Cup and the Club World Cup Because the non-profit FIFA wants to hand over influence to private investors There are 55 members in UEFA
Andy Henk130I'd support a complete boycott of anything to do with FIFA under Infantino's leadership. He's completely bought into the toxic US obsession with money over everything else and will kill the game for personal gain. Time to show him that football isn't his to sell.
OperaBunny73CONCACAF have also come out against this. They could get together with UEFA and organise a tournament that's about the football, not funneling funds to the Trump crime family.
NO OBEYANCE IN ADVANCE41An investment company managed by the KUSHNERS no less!!!🤮🤮🤮🤮 not going to happen!! These ppl are toxic & the whole concept is just wrong!!
Russell England 38For those outside Europe Europe has the Euros (UEFA European Championship) every 4 years, 2 years before / after the world cup 24 countries compete in the tournament It is the 2nd most watched football tournament after the world cup Spain are the current title holders
Synchronizing31Not “just” private investors - Jared Kushner Trump’s son-in-law, Netanyahu’s best friend, Russian money launderer, consultant to Mohammed “Bone Saw” Salman. This is how the Epstein class succeeds. How much blood money is enough?
Bill19Fire Infantino. The FIFA “Peace Prize” should have been the last straw. Restore integrity to the Beautiful Game.
Lejla 🍉🇩🇰🇪🇺8Come on Europe! Take a fucking stand and stay there. #UEFA #EU #FIFA
Thomas Berg8UEFA should've done this before the recent World Cup
James Aithie 🏴5UEFA and each individual FA within it should also demand the immediate resignation of this corrupt Russian backed sleazeball.
Hache4Hemos ganado el mundial cuando tocaba ganarlo.
Janet Johnsonville 🎭🇬🇭3Again. Infantino has surpassed Sepp Blatter. Incredible. And UEFA should boycott.
Seb Downie-Blackwell3*pounds desk and starts chanting* "SHISM, SHISM, SHISM, SHISM"
Guil 🚂 ⭕2Pra quem não quiser ler o artigo mas quiser saber o tamanho do buraco: Infantino, presidente da FIFA, quer entregar a organização dos torneios da entidade pra um grupo presidido pelo genro do Trump A UEFA disse que isso seria a gota d'água, e que, se ele fizer isso, não participa mais dos torneios
Infantino is now blackmailing countries saying if they sign up for his scam to sell the World Cup they will get $40m. If they don't he will only give them $10m. He doesn't just need to be fired he needs to be arrested, this is Blackmail and Fraud.
Violet29Trump and Infantino are basically mafia bosses
Age Garton20FIFA hasn’t been fit for purpose as long as I’ve been around. It’s always been a centre for corruption and greed - hardly sporting behaviours. Europe should pull out - followed by others. Destroy it, and start again with a better governed model. I’m sure this latest is influenced by Trump 🤨
Informed Takes19Extortion? Graft. So many words for this mob.
MariaC🇦🇷🇮🇹🇺🇦9Well, you know it is when Jared Kushner is involved Fuck Infantino for licking orange orangutan’s ass & destroying the reputation of a game loved worldwide He’s a fucking disaster Get rid of him
Mr serious 🏴🏴🐸7It's no wonder him and Trump got on so well.
ASW7I am selling shares in Buckingham Palace if anyone is interested.
Alba Barolo3Not surprised, he's a pedophile, trumper, child molesting, thief, liar & cheater! He's a Douche bag, snot rag, soaked & stinking ass kotex!
iansayer2I had that Infantino in the back of my cab once. What a slimy geezer he is. I nearly pressed the toxic gas button that slowly dissolves human tissue, but I wasn’t sure I could get a top up off e-bay.
Alex2Fuck this weird little bald headed lizard looking cunt! Bribery and corruption in plain sight. If this world cup hadn't been in good old U S of A then this wouldn't be happening. Get him out of FIFA NOW
If UEFA held a tournament (Europeans teams and other applicants) at the same time as the FIFA world cup - there would be be no World Cup. There would be no selling off of football. A few ideas need casting, plans prepared and threats made. Infantino would fade away in shame.
David Bowen5i've seen no evidence he is capable of shame
Cassandra 🏴🇪🇺🌐2These cunts have no shame.
meribel123.bsky.social2It’s time to break free from FIFA.,That organization is no longer fit for purpose. If you love football & you agree, promise you will write a letter to your national football association protesting its actions during the World Cup & recommending secession. Europe could certainly do it unilaterally
Paul Steel 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇨🇵🇮🇪🇸🇯🇸🇪🏴🇦🇹🇨🇭🇨🇦 🇬🇱🍉2Indeed! 6 out of 8 quarter finalists this year were European. It wouldn't be much of a World Cup without them!
z0phn.bsky.social2Hear me out. UEFA needs to button all these plans up in secret and wait for FIFA to sell out to the Kushners and the other grifters sniffing around. Then drop the bombshell and make popcorn.
John Mc 𓅛 🍻1@redcol.bsky.social The only problem is UEFA is just as rotten and will soon enough fall into line once they receive their brown envelopes
Enough statements, enough words, enough "careful consideration", enough private disgust. It's time for UEFA and Europe to take action against what FIFA and Infantino are doing to football: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Nick Ames7Put it this way – it's 11.59pm in the battle (if that's what it has really been so far) to save football. No more time to wait for the clock to strike.
Royal Arsenal3Need to do what we did to the super league nonsense. Otherwise we sleepwalk into dystopia.
bigwillieyoung.bsky.social2Ok . First European teams drop out of the club World Cup because it’s clearly meaningless bollocks anyway. We also piece together a larger European championships which other countries can only join if they renounce FIFA. Once that reaches a critical mass it’s a new World Cup.
Eamonn Quinn2Completely agree @nickames82.bsky.social. As I have noted elsewhere, if this does not force the UEFA affiliated Associations to reflect on how FIFA is currently run and governed, taking proper, concrete action to address its unrepairable state, nothing will. An inflection point has arrived.
Stuart Hemingway2Is it a pre requisite to be corrupt to be considered for FIFA presidency… #SeppBlatter
tykebrahe.bsky.social2UEFA hold a lot of cards, potential investors and current commercial ‘partners’ would not be enamoured of a World Cup or World Club challenge that featured no European teams FIFA would probably ban other confederations playing European sides , but would England worry about not playing Qatar etc?
FIFA president Gianni Infantino is proposing to sell a minority stake of up to 20% in a new commercial subsidiary (modeled by Formula One) that would run the World Cup and other tournaments. 🧵
Olga Nesterova38External investors — backed by Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital (Jared’s younger brother) — would own up to 20%. Infantino set a September 19 deadline offering member federations up to $40M in funding if they approve.
Andrei Taranchenko2Let me guess. The new co-owner will rhyme with "Dasha".
benway14.bsky.social1Is there any way to invade Infantino and liberate football?
KitNCaboodle1why would you sell off the one asset you have? Instead of getting 100% of the profits, you have to share with an entity that is going to demand more and more over time.
Wearing my new found “football expert” hat, (🙄)even I know that FIFA’s plans are awful. An inevitable result of letting the US host the World Cup was Infantino using the opportunity to commercialize the sport, to make more money. The US has a sports industrial complex.
jasonroberts3114.bsky.social6Also by no means an expert on football, but even I can see this has “enshitification” written all over it. Making the experience for the masses far worse, for the sake of generating huge profits for a handful of men.
Polly Curley2"Commercialise the sport"? It's already commercialised to fuck.
Laura Phillips2All part of the Trump industrial venality complex.
JR1He got a peek behind the curtain and saw the Trump family industrial corruption….
Pete Hudson 🇬🇧🇨🇵🇪🇺🏴🇮🇪🇳🇱🏴🇮🇳 #FBPE1I believe there is deep corruption within FIFA and that it should be disbanded. I even have my doubts about major sports organisations, such as the IOC and regional organisations like EUFA. They attract the wrong sort of ‘criminal’ type who is open to corruption. A fact of life I guess.
What rational or financial argument is there to sell off one of the most valuable "products" in the world - that you insist is only going to become more valuable? Why would you sell off ownership in the World Cup? It's not like there are debt issues www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
Goonerrhea4Trump sniffed an opportunity for a quick billion. And his lickspittle, Sycofantino couldn’t refuse.
D'artagnan3Trumponomics in full flow Filthy Greedy Bstds 🤮
Dave Roberts2It's almost as though someone wants to make as much money for themselves as they can before they retire? Usually the answer to both "Why is this happening?" and "Who benefits most from this" are related.
Sam Lewis (she/they) 🌈11the profit is the point. bigger is the point. more and more and more is the point. we are in the death-rattle stages of late capitalism. there is no logic; power and wealth simply accumulates for its own sake. the hunger for more is insatiable and will consume everything we love in the process.
Doc MUFC3Personal gain. Infantino will bring in the Trumps in exchange for power and influence. He actively wants to be in the Epstein files. For him, I would mean he made it.
Benjamin Flowers2What does football need? Is it more kleptocracy? FIFA has thoughts...
⚽ CONCACAF followed UEFA on Wednesday by criticising FIFA's controversial plans to sell a stake in the business operations of the World Cup and its other competitions through the creation of a semi-private subsidiary. ➡️ u.afp.com/Srzs
Knowing what we do about his temperament, there's a non-zero chance Infantino responds with Rebekah Vardy levels of self-defeating petulance, and ends up trying to hold a World Cup without any European nations.
Sam Whyte23I don't think that's likely, but, of all the possible shit outcomes, it would be the funniest.
Kelly Welles3‘Lads, he’s dropped his phone in the North Sea.’
Kevin2You know it's bad when even CONCACAF goes "yeah, this is too corrupt for us".
mirkobolesan.bsky.social1And I will be up at 3am for Indonesia vs Bolivia.
