Is Fifa selling parts of the World Cup to private investors? This week Fifa announced it will form a new subsidiary company to run part of the World Cup and offer a 20% stake to private investors, worth over $4 billion. Talks with a likely buyer of those shares have so far involved Jared Kushner’s brother’s investment firm Thrive Eternal. Al Jazeera’s Mohamm…
Is Fifa selling parts of the World Cup to private investors?
This week Fifa announced it will form a new subsidiary company to run part of the World Cup and offer a 20% stake to private investors, worth over $4 billion. Talks with a likely buyer of those shares have so far involved Jared Kushner’s brother’s investment firm Thrive Eternal. Al Jazeera’s Mohammad Saleh breaks things down.
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