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The World Cup ownership fight

FIFA's private-investor plan for World Cup rights has become a federation fight, with UEFA threatening a boycott and CONCACAF rejecting the proposal.

FIFA's proposal to place World Cup and other FIFA competitions in a new $20 billion commercial subsidiary is no longer a quiet financing plan. UEFA and its 55 member associations say they will boycott all FIFA competitions while the proposal remains alive; CONCACAF and its 41 members rejected it but stopped short of a boycott. 1 2
FIFA still describes the move as a proposal, and no sale is final: Reuters reports that it needs support from more than half of FIFA's 211 member associations plus formal FIFA Council approval. The X posts shown in the cards are an illustrative sample, not a poll. 3

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