2026年7月30日 / 美国东部时间下午5:32 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
北美足球管理机构周四否决了国际足联主席詹尼·因凡蒂诺将世界杯股份出售给私募股权投资者的计划，与欧洲国家一道加入反对阵营。
在欧洲足球管理机构欧足联同意抵制世界杯及所有国际足联赛事以抗议因凡蒂诺的计划后，拥有41个成员的中北美洲及加勒比海足球协会周四召开紧急会议。
“会议期间，会员们对该提议缺乏正当程序、人为设定的仓促截止日期，以及相关国际足联治理机构未进行任何审查或批准表示深切担忧，”中北美洲及加勒比海足球协会在一份声明中说道。
“此外，在举办了史上最赚钱的世界杯之后，仍需要私募股权投资来为新老国际足联‘前进’项目提供资金，这一点受到了质疑。”
因凡蒂诺的秘密计划于本周二被曝光：将国际足联的商业业务剥离至一家估值200亿美元的新子公司“国际足联前进企业（FFE）”，该公司将由私人投资者持有20%的股份。核心投资者将是纽约投资公司Thrive Capital，该公司由约书亚·库什纳创立，他是特朗普总统女婿贾里德·库什纳的弟弟。
“中北美洲及加勒比海足球协会是一个以热爱这项运动为纽带的联合会，足球始终是第一位的。秉持这一理念，我们在过去十年中从零开始构建了一个基于服务、透明治理和足球长期管理的组织，”中北美洲及加勒比海足球协会在声明中表示。“历史已经证明，当这项运动的守护者背离这些价值观时，国际足联和足球界会遭遇什么。”
在足球政坛震动的一天里，长期以来支持国际足联和因凡蒂诺的亚洲传统票仓周四早些时候也出现动摇。
“国际足联的单边行动似乎破坏了洲际足球的根本基础，”亚洲足球联合会主席谢赫·萨勒曼·本·易卜拉欣·阿勒哈利法在周四致会员协会的一封信中警告称，这封信已被美联社获得。
曾在2016年国际足联主席选举中败给因凡蒂诺的萨勒曼，作为因凡蒂诺的盟友，在信中写道：“这样的举措若无所有联合会的支持将无法成功，而目前显然并非如此。”
因凡蒂诺本周二致函211个会员协会——根据瑞士法律，这些协会作为非营利协会已是国际足联的实际所有者，表示如果他们批准FFE计划，承诺的未来四年1000万美元基本拨款将翻倍至2000万美元。他预计到2038年，每个会员协会获得的国际足联拨款将从约3600万美元增至8600万美元。因凡蒂诺要求所有211个会员协会在9月中旬前接受该计划。
“这不仅是领导力的严重失败，更是国际足联作为世界足球守护者职责的放弃，”欧足联表示。因凡蒂诺曾长期在欧足联任职，2016年首次当选国际足联主席前，他担任过类似欧足联首席执行官的秘书长一职。
周四，一位熟悉约书亚·库什纳旗下Thrive Capital公司的消息人士向哥伦比亚广播公司驳斥了外界对该公司参与FFE投资计划的批评。
“我认为首先有人臆测特朗普曾以任何形式参与FFE，这完全不符合事实，”该消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司。“约书亚本人与本届政府没有任何联系，他没有担任任何政治职务，也没有向他们捐款，没有以任何形式参与其中。如果你看看他的捐款记录，他捐赠的所有事业都是民主党相关的……仅仅因为某人的兄弟从事什么职业就对他妄加揣测，这相当不公平。”
当被问及库什纳家族的名号是否在促成与国际足联的交易中发挥了作用时，该消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司：“Thrive是一家相当大型的投资公司。目前Thrive管理的资产规模达600亿美元。”他补充称，约书亚·库什纳“本身就是一位相当成功的商人”。
下一届国际足联赛事将于数周后在欧洲举办——由波兰主办的U20女足世界杯将于9月5日开赛，而英国四个足协联合提交的2035年女足世界杯申办是目前国际足联收到的唯一申办方案。相关决定将于11月23日公布。
North American nations reject Infantino’s World Cup investment plan after UEFA’s boycott threat
July 30, 2026 / 5:32 PM EDT / CBS/AP
North America’s soccer body on Thursday rejected FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private equity investors, joining European nations in opposition.
The 41-member Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football held an urgent meeting Thursday after UEFA, the European soccer body, had agreed to boycott the World Cup and all other FIFA competitions to protest Infantino’s plan.
“During the meeting, the membership expressed deep concerns about the lack of due process surrounding the proposal, the artificially short deadline imposed, and the absence of any review or approval by the relevant FIFA governance bodies,” CONCACAF said in a statement.
“In addition, the need for private equity investment to fund new and existing FIFA Forward programs following the most profitable FIFA World Cup in history was questioned.”
Infantino’s secret project was revealed Tuesday to spin off its commercial operations in a new $20 billion subsidiary called FIFA Forward Enterprise, or FFE, that would be 20% owned by private investors. The core investor would be a New York investment firm, Thrive Capital, created by Joshua Kushner, the brother of President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
“CONCACAF is a confederation united by the love of our game, where football comes first. Guided by this philosophy over the past ten years we have built, from the ground up, an organization founded on service, transparent governance, and the long-term stewardship of football,” CONCACAF said in its statement. “History has shown FIFA and the football family what happens when the custodians of the game lose sight of these values.”
And on a seismic day in soccer politics, a traditional bedrock of support in Asia for FIFA and Infantino had earlier Thursday been shaken.
“FIFA’s unilateral actions appear to undermine the very foundations of continental football,” the Asian Football Confederation president Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa warned in a letter Thursday to member federations that was seen by The Associated Press.
Sheikh Salman, an ally to Infantino since losing the FIFA presidential election to him in 2016, wrote that “such an initiative will not succeed without the support of all the confederations, which is not the case now.”
Infantino wrote Tuesday to the 211 members — already the effective owners of FIFA as a nonprofit association under Swiss law — that if they approve FFE, their promised $10 million basic funding for the next four years would double to $20 million. He projected their FIFA funding through 2038 would be $86 million each, instead of about $36 million. Infantino has given the 211 members until mid-September to accept the plan.
“This is not merely a profound failure of leadership, but an abdication of FIFA’s duty as the custodian of world football,” said UEFA, where Infantino was a longtime staffer and its CEO-like general secretary when he was first elected to lead FIFA in 2016.
A source close to Joshua Kushner’s company, Thrive Capital, dismissed criticism over the firm’s involvement in the FFE investment plan to CBS News on Thursday.
“I think the first assumption is that Trump was involved in FFE in any capacity, which is just not accurate,” the source told CBS News. “Josh himself does not have any links with the administration, he does not have any political roles, he has not donated to them, he is not involved in any capacity. If you look at his donation record, all of the causes he has donated to are Democrat … it’s kind of unfair to assume a lot about somebody just because of what their brother does.”
“Thrive is a pretty big investment firm. Thrive now has $60 billion assets under management,” the source told CBS News when pressed about whether the Kushner family name had carried weight in getting the deal with FIFA done, adding that Joshua Kushner is “a pretty successful business person in his own right.”
The next scheduled FIFA tournament is within weeks in Europe — the Women’s Under-20 World Cup hosted by Poland starting Sept. 5 — and the four British federations comprise FIFA’s only bidder to host the 2035 Women’s World Cup. That decision is due Nov. 23.
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