Despite backtracking on selling stakes, UEFA wants Infantino's resignation
UEFA says it has lost confidence in Gianni Infantino's FIFA leadership as the fallout from the scrapped controversial investment plan intensifies.
On Saturday, Infantino said FIFA would no longer proceed with the proposal to sell stakes in the governing body's competitions to private investors.
UEFA - which governs European football - had earlier voted to boycott World Cups if the plans went ahead, and other governing bodies also voiced their opposition.
On Saturday, UEFA said it welcomed the decision to withdraw the plan, describing it as "a victory for the whole game".
It also accused Infantino of failing to deliver on promises, quoting a speech he gave when campaigning to become FIFA president in 2016.
The fallout from the plans means Infantino is now under immense pressure as he seeks re-election for a fourth term as president at the FIFA Congress in March.
"The current FIFA leadership has not only lost UEFA's confidence but also that of many other members of the football family," UEFA's statement read.
"When Gianni Infantino asked for the trust and the votes of FIFA's member associations to elect him as their president in 2016, he said: 'Of course we have to be transparent.'
"He told the assembled stakeholders: 'The money of FIFA is your money. It's not the money of the FIFA president. You are the national associations and the money of FIFA has to serve for the development of football and not for anything else.'
"On both these promises, he has failed to deliver. The shabby, back-room, opaque deal he hatched and tried to force through was anything but transparent."
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham - who was the first leader of a major country to call on Infantino to resign - said FIFA made "the right decision" to back down.
UEFA had been highly critical of the proposals since they were first reported in the media on Tuesday.
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) couched its condemnation of Infantino - and, make no mistake, it is livid - in creative terms.
CONCACAF, which governs football in North and Central America and the Caribbean - and hosted this summer's World Cup - said its members "rejected" the proposal, with sources saying the vast majority of associations from the region are losing, or have lost, faith in Infantino.
The AFC said it stood in "solidarity" with UEFA and CONCACAF.
On Friday, FIFA's chief operating officer Kevin Lamour said the governing body's own administration had been "deceived" about the project.
Carlos Cordeiro - Infantino's senior adviser on global strategy and governance - resigned over the matter, saying the proposal was "a bad deal for football" and would "mortgage football's future".
