FIFA President Gianni Infantino spoke in an interview with the "view" on the future of the World Football Association. According to Infantino, there have been plans to sell "certain rights" through a marketing agency, but "it's not about the World Cup". What rights should have gone, said Infantino but not.
The 48-year-old Swiss had come under criticism for wanting to enforce an alleged $ 25 billion offer for the launch of a club World Cup and a global Nations League without specific information on his sales plans. The SPIEGEL reported that while numerous rights (video games, FIFA TV, picture archive, etc.) of the World Association should be sold - also rights to future World Championships was last in the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" the speech.
Infantino submitted the plans to the Fifa Council in March, but failed there so far with his plans, because he did not want to give any information on the origin of the money. However, it should come to a not insignificant part from Saudi Arabia.
Infantino now said in the "Blick" interview, the marketing agency that would have regulated the sale of rights to a company and was 51 percent owned by Fifa, "had nothing to do with any states". Where the money should come from, said the FIFA President again not. Most recently, Infantino had brought Saudi Arabia into the discussion as host for the 2022 World Cup.
Recently, SPIEGEL and the EIC research network had also researched that while he was still Uefa Secretary General, Infantino helped Manchester City and Paris St. Germain circumvent the rules of financial fair play.