Infantino offers apology but ‘no answers’ at Fifa meeting over World Cup plan

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ZURICH: Fifa president Gianni Infantino gave “no satisfactory answers” when grilled Thursday during a meeting to discuss his attempts to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors, senior members of football’s global governing body said, but he did offer an apology for the failed project.

“We asked a great many critical questions, but there were no satisfactory answers from my point of view,” said Bernd Neuendorf, the head of the German Football Association (DFB), who is also a member of the Fifa Council.Neuendorf was speaking after the Council met behind closed doors at the body’s Zurich headquarters, where Infantino’s Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal was one of the main topics on the agenda.

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