Infantino ally insists Fifa president still has backing of most football associations

Véron Mosengo-Omba is a close friend of Gianni Infantino’s from their university days in Switzerland, and a former general secretary of Caf. Photograph: Wikus de Wet/AFP/Getty Images

One of Gianni Infantino’s closest allies has said he would “take a bullet” for the Fifa president and is confident that he still has the overwhelming support of its all-powerful congress despite mounting pressure.

But Véron Mosengo-Omba, who served as Fifa’s chief member associations officer until 2021 and is now president of the Congolese Football Federation (Fecofa), also criticised Infantino’s Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) scheme that wanted to sell off more than 20% of the World Cup to private investors.