UEFA’s World Cup ban could be lifted over FIFA’s private investment plan.

UEFA’s 55 member associations will hold an emergency meeting later this week to discuss FIFA’s controversial proposal to auction major tournaments.

He said he wanted a soccer world governing body. Creating a new business subsidiary To run its major events, including the World Cup, and foreign investors can buy shares in it.

This has raised concerns that private investors could have too much influence in those competitions, although FIFA says it will allow more money to be distributed to football associations around the world.

European football’s governing body took the dramatic step of reacting to FIFA’s plans before they were published on Tuesday, with initial reports by the Financial Times and The Times condemning the plans as “crossing the line”.

The meeting will be conducted in real time and will provide an opportunity to develop an action plan.

Given the strength of the sentiment – the football association said after UEFA’s statement was made public that FIFA had not been consulted before announcing its decision – it would be surprising if the possibility of a boycott was not at least raised.

While Uefa recognizes that it only accounts for a quarter of FIFA’s membership of 211 countries, the body includes most of the world’s most successful teams.

At this summer’s World Cup, six of the eight quarter-finalists – and eventual winners Spain – were European. In the 2022 and 2018 editions, the numbers were five and six.

Any competition that UF knows would be worth less if FIFA did not involve its members.

His argument that FIFA is forced to look at ideas to help grow the game globally has raised concerns that the main tournaments – the men’s and women’s World Cups and the Club World Cup – could be held more frequently and involve more participants in a bid to generate more revenue.

This will have major implications for an already compressed football calendar due to the expansion of European club competitions.

Senior sources at an England game told BBC Sport that the threat posed by FIFA’s plan was the biggest and equal to the game they had ever faced. European Super League, In the year In 2021, it created such a controversy and was canceled within 48 hours.

FIFA similarly seems unlikely to back down.

FIFA has said it plans to increase its international development fund to $10bn (£7.5bn). It also plans to give each of its 211 member associations access to up to $20m (£15m) of capital at a time.

The latest escalation prolongs the strained relationship between FIFA and UEFA, a proposal that has been met with fury by former Arsenal manager and FIFA’s current head of global football development, Arsene Wenger, as he attempts to host the World Cup every two years starting in 2021.

UEFA President Alexander Ceferin He missed the World Cup final. Protests over several controversial measures this month.

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