UEFA kept its boycott threat and said it still lacked confidence in Infantino, despite FIFA staff backing him and FIFA apologizing over an abandoned World Cup stake-sale plan.
FIFA's senior leadership publicly backed Gianni Infantino after a meeting in Morocco, easing immediate pressure on the FIFA president days after the organization's Secretary General and chief operating officer had criticized him. But the support did not resolve the wider crisis: UEFA said it was maintaining its threat to boycott FIFA competitions because FIFA had not met conditions set after abandoning a proposal to sell profits from the World Cup through a commercial subsidiary, and UEFA said it still had no confidence in Infantino's presidency. The dispute added to pressure from FIFPRO, the English Football Association and Amnesty International, even as FIFA apologized for mistakes tied to the project and said it would ensure they did not happen again.