🚨 Jordanian FA president accuses FIFA of blackmail! | OneFootball

Fresh controversy surrounds FIFA.

Since the Times revealed the FFE project led by Gianni Infantino, which planned to create a private company holding the World Cup rights in order to open its capital to private investors, FIFA and its president have been caught in the storm.

Today, it is the Jordanian federation’s turn to take aim at the international federation.

Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, president of the Jordanian federation, publicly accused FIFA of “blackmail” on the social network X.

“There is no shortage of problems concerning FIFA. Let me begin by clarifying what some of these problems represent from the point of view of an FA, especially that of Jordan entering a World Cup for the first time,” the prince began.

“We are a small country with a minimal budget for our FA, and we have had to face enormous obstacles. First, getting our fans into the United States: not all of them obtained VISAs, even though they had tickets — which we also know were sold at exorbitant prices. Second, we are being taxed by the U.S. government through FIFA for our participation. Money that should go to the players and staff. This was not the case for those who played and set up camp in Canada and Mexico. But we had the bad luck of being in the United States, so now we are facing these huge tax costs just for having participated.”

Al-Hussein then claimed that he still had not received the money that should have been paid to the Jordanian federation because of its run in the Arab Cup in December 2025.

“Third, since December we have been waiting for the prize money for our players for the Arab Cup in Qatar, which is a FIFA event. The money our team should receive for reaching the final has still not been paid, while at the same time FIFA boasts about the billions it has in reserve.”

“It is clear that the real problem lies in the leadership. For months, FIFA refused to help us on any of these points or others — until I was verbally informed during the World Cup that if I endorsed Infantino, it would go a long way toward helping our FA.”

“In Jordan, we are proud to uphold ethical values. We did not endorse him before and certainly not now. But the whole situation amounts to blackmail, and we refuse to give in to it.,” he finally declared.

This statement comes just hours after Arsène Wenger publicly distanced himself from Gianni Infantino’s project, but also after Le Monde revealed an email from FIFA’s number two likewise rejecting the idea put forward by the president of the international football federation.

The latter notably referred to a “series of sad and reprehensible events that fortunately led to the definitive abandonment of the FIFA Forward Enterprise project [FFE]” which “must not obscure this reality, however dismaying they may have been.”

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