Infantino remains Fifa president after executive meeting

Gianni Infantino has been Fifa president since 2016.

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Gianni Infantino will remain Fifa president after receiving the backing of senior executives at a meeting in Morocco on Wednesday.

Infantino summoned members of the management board to Fifa's Africa office in Rabat following mounting criticism of his aborted attempt to sell off commercial and event operations to private investors.

European football's governing body Uefa said at the weekend that it has lost confidence in Infantino, calling the Fifa Forward Enterprise proposal a "shabby, back-room, opaque deal".

Much criticism has come from within Fifa, including secretary general Mattias Grofstrom, who was at Wednesday's meeting. In an internal memo sent to Fifa staff on Tuesday, he wrote that the situation is "a sad and reproachable series of events".

However, in a statement following the meeting, Grofstrom and the management board "reaffirmed their full support" for Infantino as president.

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