FIFA Legal Committee faces allegations of evading questions on Infantino’s World Cup proposal

FIFA’s internal governance machinery hit another speed bump on September 12 when Jesper Moller, president of the Danish Football Association (DBU), publicly accused the organization’s Legal Committee of sidestepping pointed questions about a controversial commercial rights proposal that briefly threatened to reshape global football’s financial architecture. Moller expressed astonishment that the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) plan, a proposal to spin off World Cup commercial rights into a new subsidiary, was entirely absent from the committee meeting’s agenda. FIFA reportedly deferred the matter to an upcoming Council meeting in October, a move Moller characterized as evasion rather than process. The $20 billion plan that lasted three days To understand why Moller is so frustrated, rewind to late July. On July 28, FIFA President Gianni Infantino unveiled the FFE, an ambitious plan to create a separate entity that would manage commercial rights for the men’s and women’s World Cups, plus the Club World Cup. The headline number: a proposed sale of a 20% minority stake to outside investors, projected to raise roughly $4.2B. That price tag implied an enterprise valuation of around $20B f...