World Cup must be kept out of private hands – Chelsea manager Alonso

(Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP) / — IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE — Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso said on Friday football must be kept out of private hands and remain “for the people” after FIFA proposed selling a stake in the business operations of the World Cup.“Hopefully, we’ll keep the game as attractive and as authentic as we like it, and that’s why it creates these emotions, these passions we’ve seen in the World Cup, in the Champions League, you see in the Premier League, because it’s for everyone.”“I think that football has to be for the people, not in private hands,” Alonso said in Sydney, where the London club are on a pre-season tour.