Fifa to push ahead with consultation plan despite backlash and insists ‘nobody is selling football’
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Body responds after Uefa’s World Cup boycott threat
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Claims ‘process disrupted by incorrect media reports’
Fifa has responded to the threat of a boycott from European nations with a statement saying that “nobody is selling football”, while blaming the media for disrupting its consultation process over controversial plans to sell chunks of the World Cup to US-based private investment.
After an emergency meeting on Thursday, Uefa member associations agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments, including World Cups, unless the proposal was abandoned entirely.