France, Oct. 15 -- "We asked a great many critical questions, but there were no satisfactory answers from my point of view," said Bernd Neuendorf, the head of the German Football Association (DFB), who is also a member of the Fifa Council.

Neuendorf was speaking after the council met behind closed doors at the body's Zurich headquarters, where Infantino's Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal was one of the main topics on the agenda.

Infantino has been under severe pressure since his announcement in late July that he wanted to open Fifa's premium competitions such as the World Cup to private investors.

That plan was ultimately abandoned in the face of widespread criticism, with a rebellion led by European governing body Uefa, the Asia...