European soccer governing body UEFA says it will boycott World Cup competitions over FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s plan to inject private money.

On Tuesday, FIFA confirmed its plans to sell a significant minority stake in a new entity that it is setting up to run its main events.

After Gianni Infantino decided to scrap his plan of selling stakes in the World Cup to private investors, UEFA said it's lost confidence in the FIFA leader.

Uefa threatens legal action over Gianni Infantino's scrapped plans to sell off stakes in Fifa competitions to private investors.

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.

GENEVA (AP) — FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private equity investors was hit hard Thursday by his former colleagues at UEFA, who agreed to boycott all the global soccer body’s competitions in protest.

The fallout has spread far beyond Europe, with federations from several continents now debating what kind of leadership they want before the next FIFA election. Gianni Infantino is facing the most serious crisis of his decade-long FIFA presidency after a controversial World Cup proposal collapsed and triggered a wave of resistance across world soccer.

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