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Luis Figo demands Infantino's resignation over FIFA investment scheme

Luis Figo demands Infantino's resignation over FIFA investment scheme
Luis Figo demands Gianni Infantino resignation over FIFA World Cup investment controversy - Telegraph India · telegraphindia.com

Football is a sport played and loved all over the world.

A group called FIFA helps run the game, and its boss is a man named Gianni Infantino.

A famous former player named Luis Figo is very angry at Infantino.

Figo says Infantino wanted to secretly sell the World Cup, the biggest football competition, to rich investors.

Figo believes the plan was to give Infantino a huge job and lots of money, about $30 million a year.

Figo wrote a newspaper column saying Infantino should quit right away: 'Infantino must go.'

He said FIFA already has about $5 billion saved up, so it does not need outside investors.

Infantino is now holding urgent meetings in Morocco to try to keep his job.

Figo worries that this secret plan has hurt football's good name.

Key facts

FIFA president
Gianni Infantino
Accuser
Luis Figo (Portugal great, former Real Madrid winger)
Demand
Immediate resignation of Infantino
Trigger
Collapse of the FIFA Forward Enterprise project
Alleged pay tied to scheme
$30 million a year
FIFA reserves cited by Figo
$5 billion
Crisis talks location
Morocco
Platform
Column in the British Daily Mail (Wednesday)

Quotes

Luis Figo

Former Portugal and Real Madrid footballer, critic of FIFA leadership

“I could write 10,000 words on the problems at Fifa. But the solution needs only three: Infantino must go.”
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