Fifa to push ahead with consultation on plan while insisting ‘nobody is selling football’

World governing body responds after Uefa World Cup boycott threat ‘Consultation process was disrupted by incorrect media reports,’ Fifa says Fifa has responded to the threat of boycott from European nations with a statement saying that “nobody is selling football”, while blaming the media for disrupting its consultation process over controversial plans to sell chunks of the World Cup to US-based private investment . After an emergency meeting on Thursday, Uefa member associations agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments, including World Cups, unless the proposal was abandoned entirely. Continue

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