{"id":218846,"date":"2026-07-31T00:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/infantino-tries-to-cash-in-on-world-cup-is-footballs-soul-for-sale-the-latest-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:13:12","slug":"infantino-tries-to-cash-in-on-world-cup-is-footballs-soul-for-sale-the-latest-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/infantino-tries-to-cash-in-on-world-cup-is-footballs-soul-for-sale-the-latest-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino tries to cash in on World Cup: is football\u2019s soul for sale? &#8211; The Latest &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifa president Gianni Infantino has announced plans to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors in a new commercial entity worth $20bn. One of the leading would-be investors is Joshua Kushner, brother of Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared.<\/p>\n<p>The plans have prompted an immediate backlash \u2013 with Uefa accusing Fifa of trying to \u2018sell football\u2019s soul\u2019. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian reporter Paul MacInnes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixwFBVV95cUxPTkZMY2ZDRTlPMnFUeFlWRmVYcGVGWFAwOWo3N19ockNhdU5LbXUwbXY1cU8xUjZ5YTR4c2EyQWZOZHo2RTFMRUVhZ05fb243UERiSWJlVHdtUFJYZW5fQld1czBnLUlOU0pma29BeTFaVGJRM3Q0X0NiOEZLWGN5dnN5Q3gzZUlQME5SQkJBVjl3N19nZTR2TmJNX0pXYzlFc01xYnViclNwM1dhaElZYTF2VFZGWFQweFFKVS1HMGF0bmdScXVj?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifa president Gianni Infantino has announced plans to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors in a new commercial entity worth $20bn. One of the leading would-be investors is Joshua Kushner, brother of Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared. The plans have prompted an immediate backlash \u2013 with Uefa accusing Fifa of trying to \u2018sell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}