{"id":62566,"date":"2026-07-29T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/62566\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:07:13","slug":"world-cup-euro-nations-plan-boycott-as-fifa-told-its-invalid-with-no-england-spain-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/62566\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup: Euro nations plan boycott as FIFA told it’s ‘invalid’ with no England, Spain etc"},"content":{"rendered":"

European nations are discussing a plan to boycott the World Cup if Gianni Infantino sells a percentage of FIFA, with the president told a tournament is \u2018invalid\u2019 without the likes of England, Spain and France.<\/p>\n

News has come to light that FIFA president Infantino plans to sell stakes in the World Cup<\/a>. In the simplest terms, a new division of FIFA would be created and partly sold, which would take control over the World Cup and other major FIFA tournaments.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s said to have told members of the association that they\u2019ll make lucrative sums of money if they approve his plan, which they have until mid-September to come to a decision on.<\/p>\n

UEFA is not happy about the plan, and its countries are discussing a potential boycott of the World Cup.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Sky News<\/a> reports an emergency meeting is taking place between the countries in Europe to discuss their opposition to the FIFA plan, which they did not know about before it was publicly revealed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

A UEFA statement reads: \u201cThis crosses a line that football\u2019s governing institutions should never cross. UEFA takes it extremely seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo should every National Football Association. So should every stakeholder: leagues, clubs, players, supporters, governments and everyone who cares about the future of the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe soul and governance of football are not assets to trade \u2013 especially with zero transparency as to who gains financially. None of us are the owners of football. It is not FIFA\u2019s to sell.\u201d<\/p>\n

World Cup \u2018invalid\u2019 without Europe<\/p>\n

Stan Collymore<\/a> feels Europe will rightly immediately invalidate the World Cup if they aren\u2019t in it \u2013 and even feels UEFA should be given control of footballing law.<\/p>\n

He said on X: \u2018Cape Verde was a great story. Truly great. But 2 weeks after, football doesn\u2019t give a f*ck, less so after 1, 2 or 4 years. If Mauritius, Mozambique, Mali do the same, great, but for 99% of fans, 99% of the time, across the world, nobody cares.<\/p>\n

\u2018If France, Italy, Germany, England, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal boycott a World Cup, it\u2019s automatically invalid. It\u2019s just the truth. Likewise, a club World Cup without any of Europe\u2019s top 25 clubs is invalid.<\/p>\n

\u2018Nobody is watching Inter Miami v Boca Juniors except in markets that simply don\u2019t generate revenue or global interest.<\/p>\n

\u2018UEFA should immediately take over global law making ( UEFA replace FIFA 4 votes in a new IFAB with the 4 home nations continuing holding the other 4 votes).<\/p>\n

\u2018Europe has paid football\u2019s bills for 150 years. It does not need to vote for a man in an island of 100,000 to hold the game to random because FIFA are giving him 20 mil.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m half English, half Barbadian. One has paid its football dues, the other hasn\u2019t, so the other cannot and must not hold the balance of power.<\/p>\n

\u2018When two thirds of football nations fill their stadiums, support grassroots football, create a pyramid, have women\u2019s teams, find kids, then their vote is equal to a European powerhouse.<\/p>\n

\u2018Not a day before.<\/p>\n

\u2018Time for UEFA to secede from FIFA<\/p>\n

\u2018FIFA needs UEFA. UEFA doesn\u2019t need FIFA.\u2019<\/p>\n

READ MORE: What was the 2026 World Cup\u2019s legacy? Proving that relentless expansion is unsustainable\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European nations are discussing a plan to boycott the World Cup if Gianni Infantino sells a percentage of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2383,3357,1707,22171,273,17,415,369],"class_list":["post-62566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-england","tag-fifa","tag-front-page","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-news","tag-spain","tag-uefa","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}