FIFA's President Gianni Infantino arrives to attend a friendly football match between Iran and Costa Rica, in Antalya, southern Turkey, on March 31, 2026. [AFP]
President Gianni Infantino held emergency talks with other FIFA directors in Morocco on Wednesday, a source told AFP, amid a wave of criticism over his now shelved plan to open the World Cup to private investment.
Infantino has come under increasing pressure, even from within FIFA, over his handling of the proposal, and calls for him to step down have grown since he abandoned it last Saturday.
Infantino has been reported to have sought support from former great players known as 'FIFA Legends'.
However his plea fell on deaf ears with one of them, former Barcelona and Real Madrid star Luis Figo sending him a clear message -- "Go".
"I could write 10,000 words on the problems at FIFA. But the solution needs only three: Infantino must go," Figo wrote in the Daily Mail on Wednesday.
"Believe me, I have met some rogues in my time in the game.