A top official leaves FIFA, deepening the fallout from Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan‎

FIFA's chief operating officer, Kevin Lamour, has reportedly left his role at soccer's governing body just weeks after saying its president, Gianni Infantino, had deceived staff with his World Cup sell-off plan. Lamour, who is based in Zurich, all but invited Infantino to fire him in a statement to The Associated Press on Aug. 1 that defended his colleagues amid intense fallout from the plan to sell stakes in future World Cup profits to private equity funds. Lamour wrote that staff were “deceived” by Infantino’s lack of openness in planning.