{"id":97687,"date":"2026-08-06T10:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/?p=97687"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:05:06","slug":"fifa-president-infantino-admits-he-made-mistakes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/97687","title":{"rendered":"FIFA president Infantino admits he made mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. FIFA president Gianni Infantino has apologised for his mistakes. <\/p>\n<p>However, Infantino will remain as FIFA president after receiving the support of FIFA officials at a meeting in Morocco. President Infantino called a meeting of the management board yesterday after mounting criticism. <\/p>\n<p>After the nearly four-hour meeting, FIFA said in a statement that the management board had confirmed its support for President Infantino. UEFA said last week that it had lost confidence in a plan to bring in private investment. UEFA described the proposal as &#8220;opaque&#8221; and &#8220;closed-door&#8221;. There has also been criticism from within FIFA over the issue. <\/p>\n<p>FIFA Secretary General Mattias Gr\u00f6fstr\u00f6m said in an internal message to staff that the situation was &#8220;tragic and reprehensible&#8221;. But after the meeting, he also expressed his full support for Infantino along with the management board. <\/p>\n<p>FIFA president Infantino and general secretary Grofstrom sent a joint letter to FIFA&#8217;s vice-president, council members and 211 member associations apologizing for their errors. Infantino has been embroiled in controversy after he proposed to bring in private investment in FIFA tournaments, including the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s World Cups. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. FIFA president Gianni Infantino has apologised for his mistakes. However, Infantino will remain as FIFA president after receiving the support of FIFA officials at a meeting in Morocco. President Infantino called a meeting of the management board yesterday after mounting criticism. After the nearly four-hour meeting, FIFA said in a statement that the management<a href=\"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/97687\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;FIFA president Infantino admits he made mistakes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":97684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"publishedDateNp":"\u0968\u0967 \u0936\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0935\u0923 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0969, \u092c\u093f\u0939\u0940\u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u0966:\u096a\u096d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97688,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97687\/revisions\/97688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/97684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}