{"id":92484,"date":"2026-08-01T08:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92484"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:03:17","slug":"fifa-scraps-controversial-world-cup-investment-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/01\/fifa-scraps-controversial-world-cup-investment-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa scraps controversial World Cup investment plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/2560\/cpsprodpb\/2f88\/live\/90bb0030-8d3a-11f1-b8ee-9b3c26ad07bb.jpg\" alt=\"Fifa president Gianni Infantino looks on after the 2026 World Cup final\" width=\"642\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Fifa president Gianni Infantino says he has scrapped the controversial plan to sell off stakes in the governing body\u2019s competitions to private investors following widespread opposition. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/czekr6kn58po\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Fifa president Gianni Infantino says he has scrapped the controversial plan to sell off stakes in the governing body\u2019s competitions to private&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Infantino.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92485,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92484\/revisions\/92485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}