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Who is the Irish man who helped shape FIFA's deal to sell the World Cup?

Last month, Fifa's President Gianni Infantino shocked football fans around the world when he announced plans to sell a slice of the World Cup’s business to private investors. Unsurprisingly, the proposal went down like a lead balloon, with critics pointing out how Infantino had orchestrated the deal in secret.

But one man - who not only knew about the plan but spent months working on it behind the scenes - was FIFA’s chief of staff, an Irish Man called Daniel O’Toole.

The Dublin man was handpicked by the Fifa president to work alongside him on the potential sale before it was eventually…

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