Uefa and other key stakeholders in European football are intent on doubling down on their plan to unseat Gianni Infantino as Fifa president, with boycotts and non co-operation set to continue, to the point of potentially making the global game “ungovernable”.The Swiss official is himself determined to stay in his position, as illustrated by Wednesday’s defiant Fifa statement. Infantino is aware he still has the numbers to win March’s election.Uefa nevertheless signalled its own intent by stating that Fifa’s response so far does not meet the threshold for their boycott of Fifa competitions to be lifted, specifically pointing to how there have not been “assurances” that attempts like the privatisation of the World Cup “to disfigure the game in this way will never be made again”.Numerous sources insist that Uefa and their alliance with European Football Clubs and Concacaf - which is backed by various governments - are willing to go much further with all of this.Uefa are sticking with their boycott of Fifa competitions (PA)While no one would outright say they will ultimately threaten a boycott until Infantino resigns, the possibility weighs over everything, among a number of other complications for Fifa. High-level sources did insist that “boycotts will continue”, as will the letters of no confidence from various individual federations.Perhaps most significantly, though, Uefa and other stakeholders will refuse to engage with Fifa on any of the key discussions required to actually stage competitions and run the game.This could end up proving the most effective weapon of all, as Infantino would be unable to actually govern despite sitting in power.As an illustration, while there have been a lot of claims about how countries and clubs would boycott the 2029 Club World Cup, the very staging of the competition has not even been agreed. Fifa is meanwhile aiming to expand the World Cup to 64 teams over the next four weeks, but even the confirmation of that would still require more agreements from currently obstructive stakeholders to actually work.FifPro, the global union for players, is just the latest to scathingly criticise Fifa’s current outlook, saying that all trust has been “shattered”.FifPro, the global union for players, has become the latest to scathingly criticise Fifa (AP)There is even the possibility that Uefa figures do not participate in Fifa’s various committees.A first major test for Uefa’s stance is whether its national teams participate in September’s Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Poland.Various sources are nevertheless adamant that they realise this is going to be a long war of attrition, where they try and unseat Infantino now or know it’s another four years.