{"id":32523,"date":"2026-08-05T22:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32523"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:32:15","slug":"infantino-backed-to-continue-in-charge-of-fifa-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32523","title":{"rendered":"Infantino backed to continue in charge of FIFA \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Trump-and-Infantino-with-Peace-Prize.png\" alt=\"Trump and Infantino with Peace Prize\" class=\"wp-image-187201 lazyload\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4897307165677773;width:839px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Trump-and-Infantino-with-Peace-Prize.png\" alt=\"Trump and Infantino with Peace Prize\" class=\"wp-image-187201 lazyload\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4897307165677773;width:839px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Trump-and-Infantino-with-Peace-Prize.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Trump-and-Infantino-with-Peace-Prize-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Trump-and-Infantino-with-Peace-Prize-768x516.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Trump-and-Infantino-with-Peace-Prize-600x403.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Support: Gianni Infantino to remain in post.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Under-fire FIFA president Gianni Infantino is set to remain in post after winning the backing of its management board at an emergency meeting in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In the wake of growing discontent at his controversial plans to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors \u2013 most notably from Europe\u2019s governing body UEFA \u2013 Infantino called together senior executives to discuss the backlash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Despite UEFA saying it had lost confidence in him \u2013 they described his Fifa Forward Enterprise proposal a \u201cshabby, back room, opaque deal\u201d \u2013 Infantino is confident he has enough backing from South America, Asia and Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A statement from the game\u2019s governing body said: \u201cThe FIFA secretary general and members of the FIFA management board reaffirmed their full support for FIFA president Gianni Infantino, as the only official elected by the 211 FIFA member associations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFIFA\u2019s top management is fully confident that the outcomes of today\u2019s meeting will strengthen FIFA\u2019s governance, help restore confidence in the organisation and enable us to prepare for the major events and challenges ahead in a united and transparent manner while continuing our mission to develop the game around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was agreed that it was not the intention for the FIFA Council and FIFA Member Associations to feel excluded from the process and that the process should have been handled differently. It was further acknowledged that errors were also made after the proposal was leaked to media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Critics will have been waiting to hear the outcome of the crisis talks and will now weigh up their options going forward if they want to apply further pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The next FIFA presidential election is set to be held in March next year, with a deadline of 18 November for rival candidates to be proposed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">If they can\u2019t wait that long, an emergency FIFA Council meeting could be convened, or an emergency FIFA Congress could be held where a motion of no confidence in Infantino could be tabled.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.6.0) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Infantino #backed #continue #charge #FIFA #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support: Gianni Infantino to r&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[4335,266,6507,2291,265,1075,18906,18908,15147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}