FIFA scraps World Cup sell-off plan after backlash

FIFA, world football's Zurich-based governing body, will not be going ahead with its proposal to open up to private investors. Faced with a backlash and threats of a World Cup boycott, notably from UEFA, it announced in the early hours of Saturday morning that it was scrapping the proposal. "Having listened carefully to all points of view, it became clear that this project had created divisions which, regardless of the level of support it receives, no longer serve the original objective,"…