Infantino Refuses to Resign After Crisis Meeting

After a seven-hour crisis meeting in Rabat's suburb of Salé, FIFA President Gianni Infantino expressed his refusal to step down. He issued an apology to the FIFA Council for errors in the abandoned plan to sell a stake in the federation's tournaments to external investors. game-sweetbonanza.com

Simultaneously, Infantino warned that FIFA will no longer tolerate what he described as "attacks on the federation's integrity, governance system and processes." Despite tensions, FIFA's leadership group expressed full support for Infantino as the elected leader of the 211 member associations, and he was later seen smiling next to FIFA Secretary-General Mattias Grafström, who had criticized him the day before.