FIFA COO Lamour says staff deceived over Infantino’s World Cup plan

Core Impact Points

• FIFA's COO Kevin Lamour accuses President Gianni Infantino of deceiving staff over World Cup sell-off plan
• Senior adviser Carlos Cordeiro resigns, urging other FIFA staff to speak out against the plan
• The proposed $20bn commercial subsidiary would be owned 20% by private investors, with Kushner's investment fund as the 'anchor investor'
• Cordeiro calls the plan a 'bad deal for football' and notes that FIFA has access to 'extraordinary financial resources'
• Lamour suggests that the project must not go ahead and that football leaders should ask themselves 'the right questions and make the right decisions'
• Infantino's plan has sparked intense fallout, with UEFA threatening a boycott and the AFC standing in solidarity with UEFA and CONCACAF