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UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin says he won’t run against FIFA President Gianni Infantino, but warned the beleaguered head of world football that he must either quit or face a leadership challenge in March.
Infantino has come under increasing pressure to step down over his plan, now aborted, to sell stakes in football’s biggest tournament, the World Cup, to private equity investors. Three of the sport’s continental confederations accused him of “deception” and European soccer body UEFA threatened a boycott of FIFA competitions.
“One option is that he realises that he doesn’t have the support, and that’s not only a political support of the ones who vote, but the political support of football community, the political support of fans, the political support of the players, former players, coaches,” Ceferin said in an interview with The Rest is Politics: Leading British podcast which is set to be broadcast today.
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