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have seen third-party investors invited to take stakes in the FFE, a new subsidiary running FIFA&#8217;s commercial and event operations, including the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, UEFA welcomed FIFA&#8217;s decision to bin the highly criticised proposal but said it had not met the necessary conditions for the withdrawal of the boycott.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUEFA\u2019s associations were very clear about the conditions attached to the non-participation in FIFA competitions,&#8221; the European body said in a statement in early August.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, the proposals to sell off the major competitions had to be withdrawn and secondly, assurances have to be made that such attempts to disfigure the game in this way will never be made again. These conditions have not been met,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Should UEFA now end its boycott threat, it would clear six European teams to take part in next month&#8217;s under-20s Women&#8217;s World Cup, which is set to be held in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Poland, England, France, Portugal, Spain, and Italy are all slated to play in the tournament.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/85\/20\/41\/808x539_cmsv2_e402e0e4-9af1-5375-8251-37b112517472-9852041.jpg\" alt=\"Spain&apos;s Rodri (16) is greeted by FIFA President Gianni Infantino and President Donald J. Trump during the presentation ceremony after the World Cup final.\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Spain&#8217;s Rodri (16) is greeted by FIFA President Gianni Infantino and President Donald J. Trump during the presentation ceremony after the World Cup final.<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Football&#8217;s deepening split<\/h2>\n<p>UEFA&#8217;s decision comes as Italy and Romania became the latest nations to announce they were withdrawing their support for Infantino&#8217;s reelection at FIFA&#8217;s 2027 presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, Giovanni Malag\u00f2, the president of the Italian Football Federation, said: \u201cWe will continue to work alongside UEFA and the other European federations to promote a vision of football based on merit, solidarity, sustainability and the central role of the fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe identify with a model of dialogue, listening and shared responsibility which has, to date, enabled football to grow, innovate and, at the same time, defend its founding principles,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>R\u0103zvan Burleanu, the head of the Romanian Football Federation, added: &#8220;FIFA needs a new leader today who can foster consensus and unity, inspire confidence, and has the ability to bring us all together, rather than driving a wedge between us and others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Infantino maintains a number of key supporters, however, including Argentina, Mexico and six Arab football associations.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump also gave his backing to the beleaguered FIFA chief in August.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the world governing body &#8220;would be making a terrible mistake&#8221; if it decided to part ways with Infantino.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is fantastic, having just presided over the most successful World Cup, by four times, ever presented,&#8221; Trump wrote, adding: &#8220;If he is gone, it will never be as successful or profitable again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"perf-cv-auto c-article-contributors c-article-contributors-supplementary u-margin-top-2 u-padding-top-2\">\n<p>Additional sources<strong> \u2022 AP<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>         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the matter told the Associated Press on Wednesday.Euronews has reached out to UEFA for comment.In late July, UEFA announced its 55 member associations would take no part in FIFA competitions as long as the world governing body&#8217;s FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal remained alive.The now-scrapped plan would have seen third-party investors invited to take stakes in the FFE, a new subsidiary running FIFA&#8217;s commercial and event operations, including the World Cup.Earlier this month, UEFA welcomed FIFA&#8217;s decision to bin the highly criticised proposal but said it had not met the necessary conditions for the withdrawal of the boycott.\u201cUEFA\u2019s associations were very clear about the conditions attached to the non-participation in FIFA competitions,&#8221; the European body said in a statement in early August.&#8221;First, the proposals to sell off the major competitions had to be withdrawn and secondly, assurances have to be made that such attempts to disfigure the game in this way will never be made again. These conditions have not been met,&#8221; it added.Should UEFA now end its boycott threat, it would clear six European teams to take part in next month&#8217;s under-20s Women&#8217;s World Cup, which is set to be held in Poland.Poland, England, France, Portugal, Spain, and Italy are all slated to play in the tournament.Football&#8217;s deepening splitUEFA&#8217;s decision comes as Italy and Romania became the latest nations to announce they were withdrawing their support for Infantino&#8217;s reelection at FIFA&#8217;s 2027 presidential elections.In a statement on Wednesday, Giovanni Malag\u00f2, the president of the Italian Football Federation, said: \u201cWe will continue to work alongside UEFA and the other European federations to promote a vision of football based on merit, solidarity, sustainability and the central role of the fans.&#8221;\u201cWe identify with a model of dialogue, listening and shared responsibility which has, to date, enabled football to grow, innovate and, at the same time, defend its founding principles,&#8221; he continued.R\u0103zvan Burleanu, the head of the Romanian Football Federation, added: &#8220;FIFA needs a new leader today who can foster consensus and unity, inspire confidence, and has the ability to bring us all together, rather than driving a wedge between us and others.&#8221;Infantino maintains a number of key supporters, however, including Argentina, Mexico and six Arab football associations.US President Donald Trump also gave his backing to the beleaguered FIFA chief in August.In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the world governing body &#8220;would be making a terrible mistake&#8221; if it decided to part ways with Infantino.&#8221;He is fantastic, having just presided over the most successful World Cup, by four times, ever presented,&#8221; Trump wrote, adding: &#8220;If he is gone, it will never be as successful or profitable again.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/08\/26\/uefa-to-cancel-planned-boycott-of-fifa-tournaments&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/89\/02\/68\/1200x675_cmsv2_97249a5d-b296-5373-8ec6-8c8a4ea89d0d-9890268.jpg&#8221;] Europe News Carney to address European Parliament as Canada pivots away from Trump Culture news Tim Curry, legendary star of \u2018The Rocky Horror Picture Show\u2019 and &#8216;It&#8217;, dies aged 80 Top News Stories Today Latest news bulletin | August 26th, 2026 \u2013 Evening Grand Voyager Grand Voyager | Exploring Bodrum and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[226,36],"class_list":["post-2112992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-crawlmanager","tag-euronews-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2112992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2112992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2112992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2112992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}