Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Wednesday he has "no confidence" in Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president weakened after a plan to open the world body to private investors ultimately failed.

"The idea that good governance consists of not disclosing information to one's closest advisors (...) is fatal," added Mark Carney, whose country co-hosted the 2026 World Cup with the United States and Mexico, speaking to the press.

The Liberal (centre-left) Prime Minister, who himself previously led organisations, including the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, said that "this is not how you run a business, even a small one, let alone an institution with international responsibilities".

Beset by criticism, Gianni Infantino held a crisis meeting with senior officials of the organization in Morocco on Wednesday morning.

At the helm of FIFA for ten years, Gianni Infantino has multiplied divisive projects, until last week announcing his intention to create an external company (the FIFA Forward Enterprise, FFE) to manage the commercial activities of the organization and tournaments, such as the World Cups, with the arrival of private investors.

Since then, the dissent within FIFA has added to the external pressures coming in particular from the powerful UEFA but also from Concacaf (the North American and Caribbean confederation) which, after torpedoing the FFE project, directly criticized Infantino.

Infantino is currently the only declared candidate for his own succession as head of FIFA, in a vote that will take place in March 2027 in Rabat.