Zurich, Aug. 3 -- FIFA has rubbished reports that its president, Gianni Infantino, has approached US President Donald Trump and his administration to save his job as pressure mounts on him to step down after a controversial FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) plan aiming to bring private involvement in the FIFA World Cup and other FIFA competitions.

Trouble has been looming over the FIFA presidency of Infantino ever since the announcement of establishing the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) on Tuesday, to bring together the sale of FIFA's commercial rights, right from broadcasting, sponsorship, ticketing and licensing, with the operational delivery of its tournaments. Under this proposal, FIFA was to raise up to 4.2 billion USD (3.1 billion pound...