Debbie Hewitt walked out of FIFA’s council meeting in Zurich on Thursday with a verdict on Gianni Infantino that the governing body’s president cannot ignore.

“The man has to answer those questions. If he doesn’t answer those questions, no, he is not fit to be the FIFA president,” Hewitt told reporters after the three-and-a-half-hour session.

Hewitt, who chairs the English Football Association and is a FIFA vice president, had come to Zurich wanting documents on the aborted FIFA Forward Enterprise plan. She left without any.

“One of the disappointing things is that we didn’t get answers to anything that we had specifically requested, for example getting the papers from FFE,” she said.

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Infantino had opened the session with an apology, delivered afterwards in a video statement.

“I apologized for the mistakes that we made in relation to the communication and consultation process related to the FIFA Forward Enterprise project, which then led to many consequences,” he said.

He described the plan as “a proposal and in no way a done deal.”

Neuendorf: ‘not possible with Gianni’

German Football Association president Bernd Neuendorf was no more satisfied than Hewitt.

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“No satisfactory answers were provided,” Neuendorf said.

He went further on governance.

“The old administration has to be reformed, and the whole governance has to be reformed. But I’m pretty clear here in this that this is not possible with Gianni. So we need a complete restart, I think, a political restart,” he told reporters.

Hewitt and Neuendorf each speak for their own national association, and FIFA’s 211 members vote individually under the one-member, one-vote system, so neither can deliver a bloc of votes against Infantino.

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The $4.2 billion plan with Joshua Kushner

The FIFA Forward Enterprise proposal would have carved out FIFA’s commercial rights into a new company valued at $4.2 billion and sold a minority stake to a private investor group led by Joshua Kushner, the brother of US president Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The plan surfaced in July, days after the end of the 2026 World Cup, and was dropped within days under European pressure. Reporting from The Times of London said FIFA’s 211 member associations were offered payments of $20 million each to sign off on the proposal.

Hewitt said the heart of the complaint was not the plan itself but the way Infantino had tried to push it through.

“What he really apologised for was not bringing it to the council,” she said.

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No FFE documents were handed over at the meeting, and the plan itself remains withdrawn.

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