English newspapers The Times, the Guardian and news agency Reuters reported on Wednesday that UEFA, football's European governing body, was set to drop its threat to boycott all FIFA tournaments.
The decision to allow European teams to participate in next month's Under-20 Women's World Cup in Poland came after UEFA had reportedly received guarantees that football's world governing body would not revive a plan to sell a stake in FIFA tournaments to private investors. FIFA President Gianni Infantino had dropped his plan to create a commercial subsidiary called FIFA Forward Enterprises (FFE) in the face of widespread protest last month.
UEFA spearheaded opposition to the plan but it had also demanded that "assurances have to be made that such attempts to disfigure the game in this way will never be made again," something that until now, FIFA had declined to do. The reports suggest this demand has now been met.
The reports also said UEFA would use a meeting of its executive committee and most of the presidents of its 55 national associations in Monaco on Thursday to inform them that the U20 tournament could go ahead.
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