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2026 World Cup

Wenger and Infantino’s No 2 Grafström criticise ‘sad and reproachable’ World Cup plan

The Guardian Football about 3 hours 1 mins read

Senior Fifa duo pile pressure on under-fire president
Wenger reveals he knew nothing about investment plan

Gianni Infantino’s authority was dealt a further blow after his No 2, the Fifa secretary general Mattias Grafström, called the failed World Cup private investment plan a “sad and reproachable series of events”.

In further evidence that senior Fifa personnel continue to distance themselves from Infantino and his botched scheme, Arsène Wenger issued a statement on Tuesday morning saying the project’s withdrawal was “absolutely necessary and beyond question”. The former Arsenal manager is Fifa’s chief of global development and had publicly been silent about the crisis unfolding in world football.

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