FIFA issued a statement following a crisis meeting in Morocco on Wednesday, admitting that "mistakes were made" with the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal, a much-maligned and now-scrapped plan to sell minority stakes in the World Cup and other tournaments to private investors. That said, the statement also relayed that the senior leadership attending that meeting in Rabat "reaffirmed their full support" for FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who has been under fire because of the attempted scheme, which, notably, could have earned him a significant sum of money.
And, so, despite Infantino's apology, UEFA reportedly isn't budging on the head-turning threat it issued after news broke of the investment ploy. UEFA — European soccer's governing body, responsible for five of the past six men's World Cups — is still poised to boycott all FIFA competitions, including the men's and women's World Cups.
The women's World Cup will take place in Brazil next summer. Eleven of the 32 slots in the tournament are reserved for UEFA.
"UEFA's ******* ociations were very clear about the conditions attached to the non-participation in FIFA competitions," UEFA said in a statement on Thursday to ESPN and The Athletic.
"First, the proposals to sell off the major competitions had to be withdrawn and secondly, ******* urances have to be made that such attempts to disfigure the game in this way will never be made again.

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