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Gianni Infantino has apologised to the FIFA Council for his secretive investment plan for the World Cup.
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Infantino addressed the council at a meeting in Zurich.
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German and English football officials were left unimpressed with Infantino's address.
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino has apologised to the organisation's ruling council for making "mistakes" in his secretive investment plan for the World Cup.
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But Infantino did not give details sought by his toughest critics, who want him removed as the head of football's governing body.
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Football officials came to the FIFA Council meeting in Zurich hoping to receive more information about two of the biggest controversies that have surrounded Infantino this year.
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These were his now-aborted $US4.2 billion ($6.1 billion) World Cup sell-off plan and the Folarin Balogun red-card case at the World Cup where President Donald Trump intervened.
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Despite Infantino's apology, European delegates said they left the meeting disappointed about what they saw as a lack of clarity about the two disputes.
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"No satisfactory answers were provided," said German Football Association president Bernd Neuendorf, one of eight UEFA delegates in the 37-member FIFA Council that Infantino chairs.
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Infantino provided no documents about the World Cup sell-off plan he launched and quickly dropped in July amid a fierce backlash led from Europe, according to delegates who attended the meeting.
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Nor did he give details to explain the Balogun red card at the World Cup or how Mr Trump intervened to help the US forward.
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However, FIFA will review whether to continue awarding the peace prize that was created to give to Trump last December.
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Infantino frustrated European delegates by asking for questions in writing at their only meeting before the November18 deadline to propose a candidate to oppose him at FIFA's presidential election in March.
"The man has to answer those questions.
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If he doesn't answer those questions, no, he is not fit to be the FIFA president," said Debbie Hewitt, who leads the English Football Association and is a FIFA vice-president.
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Hewitt said Infantino offered his apology "with some contrition".
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Infantino was pressed by European football officials for written evidence about his secretive private equity plan for a World Cup commercial rights subsidiary with investor Joshua Kushner, who is Mr Trump's son-in-law.
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Known as FIFA Forward Enterprise, the proposal provoked a global rift and the biggest crisis of Infantino's near 11-year presidency.
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Infantino did not speak to media after the meeting in Zurich but issued a video statement.
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"I apologised for the mistakes that we made in relation to the communication and consultation process related to the FIFA Forward Enterprise project, which then led to many consequences," Infantino said.
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He noted that it was "just a proposal, so in no way a done deal".
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FIFA said in a separate statement that details of the investor project "remain confidential due to ongoing legal proceedings in the United States".
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The council is the main decision-making body at FIFA, with a global spread of officials who are elected by their continental soccer bodies for four-year terms.
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UEFA is leading attempts to remove Infantino before or at the FIFA presidential election in March.
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