{"id":240931,"date":"2026-08-12T08:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-uefa-afc-concacaf-hit-out-at-infantino-over-world-cup-privatisation-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:16:53","slug":"ghana-uefa-afc-concacaf-hit-out-at-infantino-over-world-cup-privatisation-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-uefa-afc-concacaf-hit-out-at-infantino-over-world-cup-privatisation-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Uefa, AFC, Concacaf Hit Out At Infantino Over World Cup Privatisation Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">FIFA President Gianni Infantino has come under renewed fire as a joint letter from three confederations UEFA, CONCACAF and AFC declared that football &#8220;belongs to no individual&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Infantino has received scathing criticism ever since launching, and then withdrawing within days, a plan to bring in private investment into FIFA competitions, including the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">FIFA had hit back on Saturday, claiming &#8220;a concerted and ongoing effort by some to undermine&#8221; football&#8217;s governing body and Infantino.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608110431.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA President Gianni Infantino has come under renewed fire as a joint letter from three confederations UEFA, CONCACAF and AFC declared that football &#8220;belongs to no individual&#8221;. Infantino has received scathing criticism ever since launching, and then withdrawing within days, a plan to bring in private investment into FIFA competitions, including the World Cup. FIFA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[16469,258,256,55131,6674,4508,4509,8032,36990,257,7586,11884,254,11197,5093],"class_list":["post-240931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-afc","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concacaf","tag-cup","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hit","tag-infantino","tag-news","tag-plan","tag-privatisation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uefa","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}