Gianni Infantino is going through a new moment of tension at the helm of FIFA. The president of the governing body of world football received strong criticism from within the institution itself, after Kevin Lamour, the operations director, publicly criticized the project to incorporate private investors into the commercial business of the World Cup.
The statements from the French executive were made just hours after the resignation of Carlos Cordeiro, who served as Infantino's financial advisor at FIFA and as a liaison with the White House. Cordeiro decided to leave his position after expressing his disagreement with the proposal to sell private investors a 20% stake in the commercial arm of the World Cup.
In a statement, Lamour harshly questioned the strategy promoted by the FIFA president. The executive stated that Infantino "deceived FIFA employees" with his private investment proposal and considered that the organization's employees "deserve something better than contempt and intimidation".
Lamour, who shares a professional past with Infantino both at FIFA and UEFA, described the initiative as "a project of one person".
