PARIS.- The president of the FIFA, Gianni Infantino, expressed his apologies for the manner, but did not give “satisfactory answers” to questions about his aborted project to open the World to private investors, lamented two members of the Executive Council this Thursday in Zurich.
“The disappointing thing is that we did not get any response to our specific demands,” he lamented. Debbie Hewitt president of the English Federation and vice president of the FIFAat the end of this council in front of some journalists.
This Thursday, Infantino chaired the first council of the world body since the scandal that almost cost him his job at the end of the summer, a few weeks after having abandoned under pressure his secret project to open the World Cup to private investors.
The revelation of this project unleashed an unprecedented wave of criticism and the UEFAthe Concacaf and the Asian Confederation Since then they have asked for his departure.
This Thursday was, therefore, the time to give explanations to some of the 37 members of this council opposed to the project.
Hewitt assured, however, that Infantino showed “some regret” during this advice.
“The only thing he really apologized for was for not bringing the matter to the council,” he explained.
But when he asked Infantino why there were no answers to the council’s questions, the president asked him “to present those questions in writing.”
“I believe that this man has to answer these questions and, if he does not do so now, he is not qualified to be president of FIFA,” he insisted.
“We asked many critical questions, and from my point of view, there were no satisfactory answers,” the president of the association also lamented. German Federation, Bernd Neuendorf.
“As I said, confidence in him has been lost. Now new people must come up with new ideas and we must determine how to put this organization, which is extremely important for world football, back on a serious basis,” he developed.
Not everyone is against him
But this point of view is not shared by all members of the council.
The president of the Mauritanian Federation, Ahmed Yahyaconsidered that Infantino’s project had as its objective “the interest of football.”
“It is the path, the method, that has failed,” he added.
