Soccer-UEFA and CONCACAF challenge FIFA on reserves after aborted stake sale plan足球——欧足联和中北美及加勒比海足联就预备队问题向国际足联提出质疑，此前一项股权出售计划被搁置。
PARIS, Sept 18 (Reuters) - UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin and CONCACAF President Victor Montagliani have called for an independent review of FIFA's financial reserves and proposed a $2.1 billion payout to its 211 member associations, in a further sign of growing tensions over the abandoned FIFA Forward Enterprise project.
FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - FIFA President Gianni Infantino arrives at the stadium before a FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup match on September 5, 2026. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo
PARIS, Sept 18 (Reuters) - UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin and CONCACAF President Victor Montagliani have called for an independent review of FIFA's financial reserves and proposed a $2.1 billion payout to its 211 member associations, in a further sign of growing tensions over the abandoned FIFA Forward Enterprise project.
The proposal would make at least $10 million available to each member association over the 2027-30 cycle and would come on top of funding already committed under the world soccer body's Forward Programme, the two FIFA vice-presidents said in a letter addressed on Friday to FIFA PresidentGianni Infantino and seen by Reuters.
The FIFA Forward Enterprise, or FFE, had been presented to the 211 member associations as a plan under which an interest in FIFA's competitions would be sold to outside investors in order to generate significantly more money for football development.
FFE was abandoned after a backlash, though Infantino is still expected to seek another term, and his opponents are struggling to find a challenger for the March 2027 vote.
Ceferin and Montagliani said their analysis of FIFA's published financial statements and budgets raised questions over whether such a transaction had been necessary.
"Our analysis now raises an important question as to whether the proposed transaction was necessary to deliver greater resources to the MAs," the letter said.
They said FIFA was on course to end the 2023-26 cycle with reserves of about $6 billion, which they described as the largest in its history, and argued that the governing body already had the capacity to distribute substantially more money to its national associations from its own balance sheet.
Under their proposal, at least $10 million would be made available to each member association during the 2027-30 cycle for investment in infrastructure and football development, for an aggregate of about $2.1 billion.
The one-off release would be additional to the existing FIFA Forward Programme, which would continue in full.
Ceferin and Montagliani said that even after such a distribution, FIFA's reserves would not fall below about $1.5 billion at any point during the next cycle, around 50% above what they said was the minimum reserve level FIFA itself had budgeted for 2023-26.
They acknowledged that their analysis was preliminary, combining published actual results for 2022-25 with estimates for 2026 and assumptions for the 2027-30 cycle.
They therefore called for an independent review with full access to the underlying figures and assumptions before recommendations are submitted through FIFA's governance process.
Once a clearer picture of FIFA's year-end financial position is available, the letter said, the FIFA Council could determine whether a larger distribution was possible and whether an equivalent payout should follow in the 2031-34 cycle.
The letter also cast the issue as one of governance, saying member associations should not have to choose between development funding and the ability to assess FIFA proposals independently.
"Development is an institutional responsibility of FIFA – not a matter of individual discretion," it said.
Ceferin and Montagliani proposed that the confederations jointly complete the analysis and agree on the amount of reserves that should be released directly to member associations, with recommendations submitted for consideration at the next FIFA Council meeting.
They said they would also ask the presidents of the other four continental confederations to support the proposal.
FIFA did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Christian Radnedge)
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巴黎，9 月 18 日（路透社）——欧足联主席亚历山大·塞弗林和中北美及加勒比海足联主席维克托·蒙塔利亚尼呼吁对国际足联的财政储备进行独立审查，并提议向其 211 个成员协会支付 21 亿美元，这进一步表明，围绕被放弃的国际足联前进企业项目的紧张局势正在加剧。
两位国际足联副主席在周五致国际足联主席詹尼·因凡蒂诺的一封信中表示，该提案将在 2027-30 年周期内为每个成员协会提供至少 1000 万美元的资金，并且这笔资金是在世界足球管理机构“前进计划”下已承诺的资金之外的额外拨款。路透社看到了这封信。
国际足联前进企业（FIFA Forward Enterprise，简称 FFE）向 211 个成员协会提出了一项计划，根据该计划，国际足联的各项赛事的部分权益将出售给外部投资者，以便为足球发展筹集更多资金。
尽管遭到强烈反对，但 FFE 还是被放弃了，不过预计因凡蒂诺仍将寻求连任，而他的对手们正在努力寻找 2027 年 3 月投票的挑战者。
塞费林和蒙塔利亚尼表示，他们对国际足联公布的财务报表和预算进行了分析，并对这种交易是否必要提出了质疑。
信中写道：“我们的分析现在提出了一个重要问题，即拟议的交易是否有必要向市场管理局提供更多资源。”
他们表示，国际足联有望在 2023-2026 年周期结束时拥有约 60 亿美元的储备金，他们称这是国际足联历史上最大的储备金，并认为该管理机构已经有能力从其自身的资产负债表中向其各国足协分配更多的资金。
根据他们的提议，在 2027-30 年周期内，每个成员协会将至少获得 1000 万美元用于基础设施和足球发展投资，总计约 21 亿美元。
此次一次性发行将作为现有 FIFA Forward 计划的补充，该计划将继续全面实施。
塞费林和蒙塔利亚尼表示，即使在这样的分配之后，国际足联的储备金在下一个周期内的任何时候也不会低于约 15 亿美元，比他们所说的国际足联自己为 2023-26 年预算的最低储备金水平高出约 50%。
他们承认他们的分析是初步的，将 2022-25 年已公布的实际结果与 2026 年的估计值以及 2027-30 年周期的假设相结合。
因此，他们呼吁进行独立审查，全面了解相关数据和假设，然后再通过国际足联的治理程序提交建议。
信中说，一旦对国际足联的年终财务状况有了更清晰的了解，国际足联理事会就可以决定是否有可能进行更大的分配，以及是否应该在 2031-34 年周期内进行同等金额的支付。
信中还把这个问题描述为治理问题，称成员协会不应该被迫在发展资金和独立评估国际足联提案的能力之间做出选择。
“发展是国际足联的机构责任，而不是个人的自由裁量权，”声明中写道。
切费林和蒙塔利亚尼提议各足联共同完成分析，并就应直接向成员协会发放的储备金数额达成一致，并将建议提交给下一次国际足联理事会会议审议。
他们表示，他们还会请求其他四个洲际联盟的主席支持这项提议。
国际足联尚未立即回复路透社的置评请求。
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