Maintenance in progress

fifa president gianni infantino dropped the fifa forward enterprise, a plan to sell world cup commercial rights to private investors valued near $20 billion, after uefa unified against it and threatened a member boycott; senior figures including arsène wenger publicly stepped back from it. in the same days, us host cities for the 2026 tournament said promised $1 million legacy payments never arrived, and former fifa vice-president prince ali bin al hussein described withheld prize money to jordan's federation as blackmail. the money architecture beneath the largest spectacle on earth is being contested openly, ten months before the crowd arrives.

football governance reporting, europe and north america