UEFA, CONCACAF, AFC Accuse FIFA of 'Deception' in Joint Open Letter

UEFA, CONCACAF, and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) — co-signed by UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin, CONCACAF president Victor Montagliani, AFC president Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa, and three general secretaries — accused FIFA of a 'fundamental breach of trust' and 'deception' in an open letter over the handling of the abandoned World Cup stake-sale plan. The letter said 'when trust is broken through deception, when an individual places himself above the collective that entrusted him with authority, that duty has been abandoned,' and called the process a 'profound failure of judgment' by Gianni Infantino, saying FIFA 'treats this as a failure of communication, when what football witnessed was a failure of judgment.' The three confederations called for an independent review of how the plan was handled. UEFA reiterated its threatened boycott of FIFA competitions, including September's Under-20 Women's World Cup. President Trump publicly defended Infantino as the letter landed.