{"id":72312,"date":"2026-09-06T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/72312"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:01:19","slug":"infantino-to-seek-re-election-as-fifa-president-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/72312","title":{"rendered":"Infantino to seek re-election as FIFA president in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>FIFA president Gianni Infantino remains committed to standing for re-election amid renewed opposition to his \u200bcandidacy after\u00a0a botched plan\u00a0to sell a \u200cstake in FIFA competitions to private investors, a spokesperson for the global soccer body said on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Infantino, who had \u200bpreviously announced that he would seek a \u200bfourth term in March next year, has faced \u2060calls to resign from UEFA, the AFC \u200band CONCACAF, after his plan to sell a 20% \u200bstake in the World Cup and other FIFA events was scrapped amid widespread backlash in July.<\/p>\n<p>But the 56-year-old retains support \u200bfrom the African and South American confederations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u200bFIFA president announced in April that he will stand for re-election \u200cin \u20602027. Of course, nothing has changed. Mr Infantino will be standing for re-election,\u201d a FIFA spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement came after Infantino\u00a0remained \u200btight-lipped\u00a0when asked \u200bwhether he \u2060regretted the\u00a0turbulent last six weeks\u00a0while attending the U-20 World Cup in \u200bPoland on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be a lot \u200bto \u2060say, but there will be a right place and a right time to say this,\u201d Infantino had \u2060said.<\/p>\n<p>No \u200bone has formally announced a \u200bcandidacy to challenge Infantino in next year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/infantino-to-seek-re-election-as-fifa-president-in-2027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA president Gianni Infantino remains committed to standing for re-election amid renewed opposition to his \u200bcandidacy after\u00a0a botched plan\u00a0to sell a \u200cstake in FIFA competitions to private investors, a spokesperson for the global soccer body said on Sunday. Infantino, who had \u200bpreviously announced that he would seek a \u200bfourth term in March next year, has faced \u2060calls to resign from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/FotoJet-10-2-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":4622,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":4622,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72314,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72312\/revisions\/72314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}