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Posted on 08/01/2026 4:36:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
European soccer’s governing body UEFA declared it has lost confidence in FIFA president Gianni Infantino, piling pressure on the beleaguered sporting chief despite the organization dropping a hugely controversial plan to sell private stakes in the World Cup and other top tournaments.
In a blistering statement released Saturday morning, UEFA welcomed the decision by FIFA to withdraw its plan but laid bare its unhappiness with Infantino.
“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,” the statement said. “We must identify those responsible and hold them to account.”
Pressure has been mounting on Infantino to drop the scheme after UEFA - whose members the winner’s of both the men’s and women’s World Cup Spain - threatened to boycott soccer’s leading tournaments. A senior adviser to Infantino, Carlos Cordeiro, resigned on Friday, saying he opposed the plans “unequivocally.”
UEFA’s statement, which stopped short of explicitly calling for the FIFA chief’s resignation, said that he had promised to be “transparent” when he asked FIFA’s Member Associations to vote for him as president in 2016, but he had failed to deliver on this.
“The shabby, back room, opaque deal he hatched and tried to force through were anything but transparent,” the statement said.
UEFA said that it would now work with partners and stakeholders to make sure such moves cannot be fast tracked without consultation in the future.
“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.”
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Does anyone with two brain cells to rub together have any "confidence" in FIFA, even before the latest scandal?
FIFA is woke
What does Trump have to do with it?
Gianni Infantino is friendly with President Trump.
Yep, and that alone is a capital crime in wokelandia. (Now do Milei and Argentina...)
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