Gianni Infantino’s outlandish plan to privatise the World Cup has been in the works for over a year, going back through last year’s Club World Cup in the United States, senior football sources now insist. It is nevertheless claimed the project was so secret that not even Infantino’s inner circle or closest advisors at Fifa knew, to the point it has actually aggravated allies in key strongholds like the Asian Football Confederation.
Many in football suspect that this plan was developed with financial interests connected to the wider Donald Trump family over the last year, explaining Josh Kushner’s current proximity.
