The crisis triggered by FIFA chief Gianni Infantino¡¯s abandoned proposal to sell a stake in the World Cup deepened on Tuesday, with influential executives distancing themselves from the project, while Jordan¡¯s FA president accused him of blackmail.
After three days of unprecedented civil war in the world of soccer administration last week, the 56-year-old Swiss-Italian Infantino backed away from his plan to raise $4.2 billion from a new commercial rights body late on Friday night.
Infantino apologized for how the proposal, which would have brought private investment into the World Cup for the first time, had divided ?the game, but his once unassailable bastion of power at the top of the global governing body was shattered.
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