Joshua Robinson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Aug
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UEFA's specifically trying to see how this plan came about, what the negotiations were, and also how they came up with this valuation of $20 billion for this FIFA Ford Enterprise, which was a way to privatize some of the commercial rights of FIFA's biggest competitions, like the World Cup, like the Women's World Cup, and then sell off a stake in them.
They came to a number that was $20 billion.
Thrive was going to pay about $4.2 billion for their stake.
And
what this lawyer's filing today says is that this was actually quite low.
And that they arrived at this number in a completely backhanded arrangement.
They believe that Infantino was in this to profit personally, that after twenty thirty one, his next presidential term, he would go and serve as chairman of FIFA Forward Enterprise, where he would be paid much, much more than the roughly six million dollars he currently makes.
FIFA's been able to do this amazing thing where they've been a scandal ridden organization for decades at this point, and somehow that hasn't tainted their ultimate product, which is the World Cup.
Mm-hmm.
So the plan was to take FIFA's commercial rights and then spin off into a private company that they could then sell a section of.
But Johnny and Fantino tried to push this plan through very quickly with minimal oversight.
And what happened was most of the soccer world thought, hey, he's bringing in outside people and selling off our most prized competition.
And so there was an immediate and very strong reaction to all of this.
Their argument is that this didn't happen in a vacuum.
It goes back to things like awarding President Trump the FIFA Peace Prize, an award he made up, things like trying to ram through a proposal for a 64-team World Cup, expanding it from 48.
There have been examples over and over again of Infantino coming up with an idea and trying to get it through without consulting the members of FIFA or the FIFA Council, and half the world has had just
These three confederations, and the most powerful of them is UEFA, which oversees the game in Europe.
They've been at loggerheads with Infantino for years.
They see this as their opportunity to get him out once and for all.
What they're trying to provoke is maybe a vote of no confidence, which is unprecedented in FIFA history.
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