UEFA maintains World Cup boycott threat following FIFA's changes

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European body says Fifa statement ‘changes nothing’ ‘Conditions not met’ to call off boycott of competitions Uefa has doubled down on its threat to boycott Fifa-run competitions and reiterated its loss of confidence in Gianni Infantino’s presidency. European football’s governing body said Fifa’s public backing of Infantino on Wednesday night “changes nothing” and explained it had not been provided with certainty that repeats of the past nine days’ crisis will not occur. Last week Uefa’s 55 member associations agreed to boycott Fifa tournaments if Infantino did not withdraw his privately-funded Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) and, although the scheme was scrapped last Friday, it said the terms necessary to avert the boycott have not been met. Continue reading...

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A European boycott of the World Cup remains in place, UEFA has said, hours after FIFA indicated its under-fire president Gianni Infantino would carry on and still had its “full support”. Infantino has been under pressure for over a week after a controversial plan to sell stakes in a company to run the World Cup to private investors first emerged on July 28.

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UEFA says the withdrawal of FIFA’s controversial private investment plans has not gone far enough, insisting president Gianni Infantino remains without its backing.Infantino faced fierce criticism a...