UEFA’s Ceferin says FIFA trust still broken after Infantino investment row

UEFA president speaks for the first time since FIFA said it would review its decision-making, says trust still broken. UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says trust in world football has not ⁠been restored following the collapse of FIFA’s controversial private investment plan. The remarks, made in a video address to the ⁠Portugal Football Summit on Wednesday, were Ceferin’s first public comments since FIFA president Gianni Infantino offered a review of the governing body’s decision-making. Ceferin said unity, transparency and governance that served the wider game were essential to maintaining trust in football. “Yet not everyone places the game above their own ambitions.” “Trust in our sport rests on three pillars: unity, transparency, and governance that serves the many, not the few.

‌In recent times, all three were disregarded by people who had sworn to protect them. “The project that shattered the unity of world football may be abolished, but the trust it broke has not returned, and repairing it is our work now.” Ceferin did not name Infantino or FIFA, but his comments were an apparent reference to the abandoned proposal to sell a 20 percent stake in FIFA’s commercial rights, including the World Cup, to private investors. The plan ⁠was dropped in July after fierce opposition from UEFA, the Asian Football ⁠Confederation and the Confederation of North, Central America and