Entrepreneur Joshua Kushner attributed, this Monday, to what he called power struggles in football the strong resistance to FIFA's plan to open some of its competitions, including the World Cup, to private investment, acknowledging that his company would not have participated if it had foreseen such a level of opposition.
Kushner is the brother of US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, and his comments are the first since FIFA abandoned its privatization plan. The resistance to the plan was intense and led to the reversal of the proposal.
Meanwhile, UEFA is preparing a criminal case against the president of the world football governing body, Gianni Infantino, which highlights the climate of conflict between the main bodies of global football.
"Although we support the motivations of FFE (FIFA Forward Enterprise), we were unable to predict the political dynamics of world football and how far some were willing to go," said Kushner, admitting that the company did not foresee the magnitude of the political opposition to the project.
