Infantino calls emergency meeting in
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Infantino calls emergency meeting in Morocco amid FIFA criticism

International Football Association (FIFA) President Gianni Infantino has called an emergency meeting in Morocco after recent heavy criticism, The Times reports.

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The purpose of the meeting is to discuss how Infantino can cling to power, The Times writes, citing sources. His most loyal aides are also said to have urged several of FIFA's 211 member countries to publicly support Infantino.

Since Infantino presented his now-scrapped plan to sell World Cup shares to private investors, several national federations have announced that they will not support Infantino's re-election in March.

Voices against the plan have also been raised internally - including from the federation's Swedish secretary general, Mattias Grafström, who described the whole thing as a "sad and reprehensible development" in a message to FIFA employees, according to several media outlets.

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