FIFA crisis: "Deception," UEFA, Concacaf and the AFC join forces against Gianni Infantino and consider competitions between teams from the three continents.

UEFA, Concacaf and the Asian Federation unveiled an open letter on Monday denouncing the solitary power and methods of FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

Headwind for Gianni Infantino. Football "does not belong to any individual," wrote the European (UEFA), North American (Concacaf), and Asian (AFC) confederations on Monday, further disavowing the FIFA president after he withdrew his plan to open the sport to private investors. "There is silence where there should be responsibility, distance where there should be transparency. These are not the qualities that football deserves to find in its leadership," the three confederations continued in an "open letter to the football family."

And the three confederations continued in unison: "Leadership in football is not a possession. It is not about holding – or demanding – power in order to retain it. It is a duty of service to the football family that entrusts it. When trust is broken by deception, when an individual places himself above the collective that has given him authority, this duty has been abandoned."

The three dissenting confederations were not convinced by FIFA's counter-attack last Wednesday, which offered "apologies" for the controversy created by its commercial society project while displaying its "full support" for Gianni Infantino after a crisis meeting in Rabat.

The letter sent by the world body to its 211 member federations "presents this as a failure of communication, when what football has witnessed is a failure of judgment", a "fundamental breach of trust in the very institutions that FIFA exists to serve", deplore UEFA, Concacaf and the AFC.

A letter to push Infantino out

The letter is also one of the new solutions for the three confederations to push Gianni Infantino out, leaving him the possibility of announcing his departure in the coming weeks without even running in the presidential election in March.

Internally, the three confederations are also discussing a potential boycott of the 2030 World Cup and the World Cup qualifiers. The three confederations could organize tournaments between their national teams if Gianni Infantino remains in office. The pressure is intense on Infantino, who continues to enjoy strong support from CAF and also from the South American confederation, whose president was seen smiling alongside the FIFA president this past weekend in Colombia.