{"id":125281,"date":"2026-08-01T05:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/infantino-drops-fifa-world-cup-private-equity-plan-after-global-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T05:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:35:56","slug":"infantino-drops-fifa-world-cup-private-equity-plan-after-global-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/infantino-drops-fifa-world-cup-private-equity-plan-after-global-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino drops FIFA World Cup private equity plan after global backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gianni Infantino wanted to create a $20 billion company to manage FIFA&#8217;s commercial business, including the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s World Cups and Club World Cups. Under the proposal, private investors would own a 20% stake in the new company. The proposed &#8220;anchor investor&#8221; was a New York-based investment firm founded by Joshua Kushner, the younger brother of Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gianni Infantino wanted to create a $20 billion company to manage FIFA&#8217;s commercial business, including the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s World Cups and Club World Cups. Under the proposal, private investors would own a 20% stake in the new company. The proposed &#8220;anchor investor&#8221; was a New York-based investment firm founded by Joshua Kushner, the younger&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/infantino-drops-fifa-world-cup-private-equity-plan-after-global-backlash\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Infantino drops FIFA World Cup private equity plan after global backlash<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":125282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}