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UEFA, Concacaf Seek $10M Payments for FIFA Members

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FIFA's member federations should each get an extra $10 million (£7.4m) from its swelling cash reserves after a successful World Cup, UEFA's president Aleksander Ceferin and Concacaf's leader Victor Montagliani said in a letter Friday to president Gianni Infantino. The letter says FIFA should have cash reserves of $6 billion after the World Cup and can afford such a "one-off release" -- totaling $2.1 billion to the 211 federations.

UEFA and Concacaf want to remove Infantino -- either before or at the FIFA presidential election next March -- after leading a global backlash in July against his World Cup sell-off plan to investors led by Joshua Kushner. The call for $10 million payments is a clear counter to Infantino's offer of $20 million for each to support his now-failed project.

The letter says already promised FIFA funding -- $20 million for each of the 211 through 2030 -- "would continue in full as already committed." Ceferin and Montagliani told Infantino they want a full and independent analysis of FIFA's finances ahead of an Oct. 15 meeting in Zurich.

FIFA has set a Nov. 18 deadline for candidates to enter the election decided four months later in Rabat, Morocco.