{"id":41111,"date":"2026-07-30T13:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41111"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:07:37","slug":"caf-to-evaluate-fifas-10-billion-commercial-proposal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/caf-to-evaluate-fifas-10-billion-commercial-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF to evaluate FIFA\u2019s $10 billion commercial proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has confirmed receipt of official correspondence from FIFA regarding a major commercial proposal put forward by FIFA President Gianni Infantino.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe is set to chair an Executive Committee meeting next week to evaluate the proposal, dubbed the &#8220;FIFA Forward Enterprise&#8221; initiative. CAF has urged its member associations to study the document carefully and actively participate in upcoming discussions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The initiative aims to boost global football revenues by selling a portion of FIFA\u2019s event commercial rights to private equity investors. According to FIFA, the plan would inject over $10 billion into the sport, guaranteeing each member association $40 million over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the proposal has drawn swift criticism across the football world after it emerged that FIFA failed to brief member associations before making the plan public.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22506,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-41111","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Motsepe calls CAF meeting over FIFA\u2019s private equity plan","published_date":"2026-07-30 13:07:11","news_description":"Motsepe calls CAF meeting over FIFA\u2019s private equity plan","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41113,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41111\/revisions\/41113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}