European football's governing body (UEFA) on Thursday reaffirmed its boycott of the World Cup despite FIFA's apology a day earlier for "errors" over its now-abandoned plan to sell stakes in the tournament…

Infantino was last week forced to scrap a proposal to make stakes in FIFA's commercial and event operations available for private investment

Secretary-General Mattias Grafstrom sent a message to staff lamenting the “sad and reproachable series of events” that led to a stake sale plan being dropped.