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UEFA says it and “other members of the football family” have lost confidence in Gianni Infantino, accusing the FIFA President of a “shabby, back room, opaque” deal after plans to sell a stake in its competitions were abandoned.
FIFA and Infantino performed a U-turn on the proposals to sell stakes in the World Cup and world football’s governing body’s other tournaments to private investors on Friday following significant backlash, including from European federation UEFA, who vowed to boycott the World Cup in protest.
UEFA released a statement on Saturday, saying it would “devise a plan” to ensure these proposals could not happen again, adding: “No option should be off the table.”
“We cannot keep going on like this with secret schemes on fast track timescales, cooked up by faceless individuals and of dubious benefit to the game. We must identify those responsible and hold them to account,” the statement read.
“In the coming days and weeks, UEFA will work with its associations and in close cooperation with other confederations to reflect on how this happened and devise a plan to make sure that it cannot occur again. That review should be thorough and fundamental. No option should be off the table.
“The current FIFA leadership has not only lost UEFA’s confidence but also that of many other members of the football family.”
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FIFA announced plans on Tuesday to sell a significant minority stake to private investors in a new entity that it, as a non-profit organisation, was setting up to run its main events, such as the World Cups and Club World Cups. FIFA wanted to sell a fifth of the new entity to an investor group led by Thrive Eternal — a U.S. investment fund run by Joshua Kushner, the brother of President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — for $4.2billion (£3.1bn).
UEFA met to discuss the plans on Thursday and announced that all 55 European members would boycott all FIFA competitions unless the proposals were abandoned. This was followed by Concacaf (the soccer confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean) and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) both rejecting the plans.
The Athleticreported that during UEFA and Concacaf’s respective meetings, Infantino’s future leadership of FIFA was questioned.
Infantino, 56, has been FIFA president since 2016. His current term expires in 2027 and he is due to stand for re-election in March. He was previously Secretary General ofUEFA between 2009 and 2016.
UEFA said Infantino had “failed to deliver” on his 2016 election promises of transparency, and FIFA’s financial resources being used only for the development of football.
“The shabby, back room, opaque deal he hatched and tried to force through was anything but transparent,” the statement added.
Nasser Al-Khelaifi, Paris Saint-Germain president and a member of the UEFA Executive Committee, had been tipped as a potential candidate to run against Infantino for the FIFA presidency. But his spokesperson said on Saturday that he had “no interest” in the role.
“Mr. Al-Khelaifi has absolutely no ambition, no intention and no interest in the FIFA role and all this media noise, and instead will continue to quietly and constructively support all the institutions of world and European football,” Al-Khelaifi’s spokesperson said in a statement.
Challengers to Infantino must submit their candidacies for the March election by November 18.
The UEFA statement concluded: “This is a victory for the whole game. But it must not be the end of the story. The proposal has gone. The task of rebuilding trust in FIFA has only just begun.”
In a statement late on Friday, Infantino said: “Having listened carefully to all the views, it has become clear that the project has created divisions of a nature that, regardless of the level of support, are no longer in the interest of the objective set out in the first place.
“Our purpose has always been — and will always be — to unite and improve. As a result, this proposal will not proceed.”
