Fifa admits mistakes but Infantino remains president

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Gianni Infantino was first elected Fifa president in 2016

Football issues correspondentPublished1 hour agoImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Gianni Infantino was first elected Fifa president in 2016

Gianni Infantino will fight to stay on as Fifa president after a meeting with senior executives in Morocco on Wednesday.

Infantino summoned members of the management board to Fifa's Africa office in Rabat following mounting criticism about his aborted attempt sell off of commercial and event operations to private investors.

Uefa said at the weekend that it has lost confidence in Infantino, calling the Fifa Forward Enterprise proposal a "shabby, back room, opaque deal".

Much criticism has come from within Fifa, including secretary general Mattias Grafstom, who was at Wednesday's meeting. In an internal memo sent to Fifa staff on Tuesday, he wrote it was "a sad and reproachable series of events".

But Infantino has vowed to stay on and fight for re-election for a fourth term.

Rivals have until 18 November to put their names forward to stand against Infantino, with the election to be held at the Fifa Congress in Morocco in March 2027.

A candidate requires 106 votes from Fifa's 211 members to win.

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