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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Infantino under pressure to include abandoned World Cup sell-off plan in external Fifa review

Fifa president Gianni Infantino waves
Gianni Infantino said his ideas on Fifa’s proposed external review had been well received. Photograph: Pablo Morano/BSR Agency/Getty Images

Fifa council members will demand that Gianni Infantino include the abandoned World Cup sell-off plan and the Folarin Balogun affair in his proposed external review of Fifa’s governance.

In a letter sent to all 211 of Fifa’s member associations on Monday, Infantino said he would ask the council to commission a review of “Fifa’s current governance framework for major strategic initiatives” at its next meeting, in Zurich on 15 October, but he faces an internal battle over its terms of reference.

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