{"id":365783,"date":"2026-07-30T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/fifa-plan-to-sell-stakes-in-world-cup-just-cronyism-and-nepotism\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:00:05","slug":"fifa-plan-to-sell-stakes-in-world-cup-just-cronyism-and-nepotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/fifa-plan-to-sell-stakes-in-world-cup-just-cronyism-and-nepotism\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa plan to sell stakes in World Cup just &#8216;cronyism and nepotism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/WoyJ54WS3_w\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Fifa plan to sell stakes in World Cup just 'cronyism and nepotism'\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WoyJ54WS3_w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Gianni Infantino has given Fifa&#8217;s 211 member associations 53 days to sign up to his World Cup sell-off plan. If they do, he says they&#8217;ll each get up to $40 million.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>His proposals to create a Fifa subsidiary, 20% owned by private investors, have sparked an outcry in the football world.<\/p>\n<p>Former Football Association chairman David Bernstein tells Channel 4 News the plan is \u2018cronyism and nepotism and very, very wrong\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gianni Infantino has given Fifa&#8217;s 211 member associations 53 days to sign up to his World Cup sell-off plan. If they do, he says they&#8217;ll each get up to $40 million. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe] His proposals to create a Fifa subsidiary, 20% owned by private investors, have sparked an outcry in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-365783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fifa plan to sell stakes in World Cup just &#039;cronyism and nepotism&#039; | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Fifa plan to sell stakes in World Cup just &#039;cronyism and nepotism&#039; for free, here on News ISC. 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