FIFA offers Council members access to scrapped FFE documents

FIFA has invited members of its Council to register interest in viewing documents about the abandoned FIFA Forward Enterprise proposal, offering access in person at its Zurich headquarters under specific conditions. The invitation, sent by Secretary General Mattias Grafström on November 2, comes as FIFA faces questions from UEFA about the proposal and other matters concerning President Gianni Infantino’s leadership. The documents currently offered relate to FIFA Forward Enterprise, or FFE, a plan to place commercial interests in the World Cup and other FIFA competitions in a company with a minority stake held by private investors. According to reporting on the invitation, Council members must view the materials in person and subject to conditions intended to protect FIFA’s confidentiality obligations. Members have two weeks to register interest, according to one account. UEFA’s October 19 letter, sent on behalf of European members of the FIFA Council, sought answers across 42 areas and set November 2 as a response deadline. The questions covered FFE as well as other concerns about Infantino’s presidency, including the Folarin Balogun disciplinary case. The invitation to...