Projet d’investissements privés à la FIFA : Infantino a « perdu la confiance de l’UEFA »
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has "lost the confidence" of UEFA and "many other members of the football family," the powerful European confederation said on Saturday after securing the withdrawal of a plan to open international competitions to private investors.
"We cannot continue like this, with secret maneuvers carried out at a frantic pace, orchestrated by faceless people whose interest in sport is questionable. We must identify those responsible and hold them accountable," UEFA wrote in a statement, welcoming the withdrawal announced a few hours earlier by Infantino.
The abandonment of the project "is a victory for the whole of football. But this should not mark the end of the story. The proposal has been rejected. The task of restoring confidence in FIFA is only just beginning," the statement insists.
This sharp criticism comes as the election of the FIFA president is scheduled for March 2027 and Gianni Infantino is currently the only declared candidate to succeed him.
Faced with opposition from many FIFA member federations, Infantino was forced to abandon his plan to create a company - the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) - open to private investors and responsible for managing the commercial and event activities of the organization, including the World Cup.
"After carefully listening to all points of view, it became clear that the project has created divisions (...) which are no longer in the interest of the original objective," he acknowledged.
This proposal, revealed on Tuesday to everyone's surprise, was overwhelmingly rejected, especially by UEFA, which on Thursday "unanimously" threatened not to participate in future FIFA competitions, including the World Cup, if the project was carried out.
In its statement published on Saturday, the powerful body which brings together 55 European federations called for a "new method of allocating resources through the existing Fifa Forward program" using part of the body's reserve funds, estimated at $5 billion.
"We need to start using some of that money sitting idle in FIFA's bank account to give football the boost it needs in each of FIFA's 211 member countries. But we don't need to sell off our family jewels to finance this," UEFA wrote.
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