India, Aug. 5 -- Gianni Infantino is due to face FIFA's senior executives at a crisis meeting in Morocco on Wednesday as the fallout from his abandoned attempt to sell a stake in the governing body's commercial operations threatens his authority and re-election bid. The FIFA president has summoned members of the organisation's management board to its Africa office near Rabat, where he is expected to seek support from the officials responsible for FIFA's day-to-day functioning.

The gathering comes after several influential figures within FIFA publicly or internally distanced themselves from the proposed FIFA Forward Enterprise project. The plan would have created a new commercial rights body and sold a 20 per cent stake to private investo...