🚨 FIFA row: other confederations ready to join UEFA boycott? | OneFootball

The shockwave caused by UEFA could well disrupt the balance of world football.

By flatly rejecting the partial privatization of the World Cup, UEFA may just have sparked one of the most serious governance crises in the history of modern football.

But the European threat to walk away from the sport’s biggest tournament may be only the first domino in a chain reaction that could spiral out of FIFA’s control.

According to The Athletic and TalkSport, the 41 member associations of CONCACAF (North America, Central America, and the Caribbean) have called an emergency meeting at 6:30 p.m. to decide the issue. In their sights: FIFA’s lack of transparency and the confusion caused by its desire to bring private funds into an institution that is nevertheless financially sound.

As CONCACAF could also come out in favor of a boycott, all eyes are now turning to CAF (Africa) and CONMEBOL (South America).

If those confederations were to follow UEFA’s position, Gianni Infantino and FIFA could find themselves facing the most alarming scenario in their history: a World Cup without some of the biggest nations on the planet.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.

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