Carlos Cordeiro, a top advisor to FIFA president Gianni Infantino, resigns over opposition to World Cup proposal

Carlos Cordeiro called the proposal a "bad deal for football."

The FIFA president's plans to sell off a stake in the World Cup has been met with widespread disapproval throughout the sport

Uefa has confirmed that European national teams will not play in Fifa competitions until the project is scrapped.

Gianni Infantino has been FIFA president since 2016 and has rocked the footballing world with his proposed plans for the World Cup

The walls may be closing in on Gianni Infantino at the helm of FIFA as his FFE plan to sell World Cup shares has massively bombed.

Controversial plans to sell stakes in the FIFA World Cup to private investors have sparked a furious response from football authorities and politicians. UEFA, the body that governs European football, took the unprecedented step of releasing a statement condemning FIFA’s plan, which involves creating a new entity that w