World Cup must be kept out of private hands: Chelsea manager Alonso

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• Yahoo Sports UK center

  World Cup must be kept out of private hands: Chelsea manager Alonso
• Yahoo Sports center

  Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso said on Friday football must be kept out of private hands and remain "for the people" after FIFA proposed selling a stake in the business operations of the World Cup."I think that football has to be for the people, not in private hands," Alonso said in Sydney, where the London club are on a pre-season tour.
• France 24 center

  Sports - UEFA vows FIFA World Cup boycott over private investor plan
• aljazeera.com center

  FIFA defiant over World Cup investment plan, despite UEFA’s vote to boycott
• Diario AS

  How FIFA’s plan to sell World Cup stakes could skyrocket ticket prices even further
• The Independent left

  ‘No-one has clean hands’: Readers on Fifa’s World Cup sell-off
• Yahoo Finance center

  Adidas Q2 revenue climbs 14% on FIFA World Cup demand
• nypost.com right

  White House’s World Cup adviser quits over FIFA’s $20 billion cash grab
• Yahoo Finance UK center

  UK finance minister says FIFA's World Cup sale plan is collapsing
• The Wall Street Journal right

  Backlash intensifies on FIFA’s plan to sell part of its World Cup product to private investors. on.wsj.com/4yRPFL2
• The Guardian left

  Andy Burnham calls on Infantino to resign over ‘outrageous’ World Cup plans
• Anadolu Ajansı

  In 5 questions: FIFA’s World Cup investment plan that has split global football
• The New York Times left

  In Opinion FIFA has an obligation “to leverage the sport’s commercial value to invest in soccer development worldwide,” writes Nathán Goldberg Crenier, vice president of U.S. Soccer. It can do that without “selling a significant piece of the World Cup — its crown jewel — to a private equity firm.”
• CNBC center

  FIFA tests the limits of private equity in sports with World Cup subsidiary sale
• The New York Times left

  Polish FA planning for U-20 Women’s World Cup to go ahead, believes boycott will be avoided
• The Wilson Times left

  Opinion: From North Carolina to Mexico, the World Cup was a reminder of our humanity