UEFA has released a statement saying it has ‘lost confidence’ in Gianni Infantino, following his failed FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal.FIFA president Infantino had planned to sell off stakes in football governing body’s competitions to private investors, but scrapped the idea in the early hours of Saturday morning amid widespread outrage.Gianni Infantino’s position as FIFA president is becoming increasingly untenableGettyMultiple continental federations were strongly opposed to the project, including UEFA.European football’s governing body warned that its member nations would boycott future FIFA tournaments if the plan went ahead.Infantino has also seen his inner circle begin to crumble – senior advisor Carlos Cordeiro resigned on Friday, releasing a strongly worded statement opposing the FFE plans.And now, after the under-fire football chief was forced to pull the plug on his controversial proposal, UEFA has welcomed the decision.In a statement, UEFA blasted Infantino’s plans, and thanked the ‘fans, leagues, clubs, players, individuals, associations and confederations that opposed the scheme’.The European football authority also said the ‘current FIFA leadership has not only lost UEFA’s confidence but also that of many other members of the football family’.UEFA statement in full“UEFA welcomes FIFA’s decision to withdraw its plan to sell a stake in its competitions – including the World Cup – into private hands.“The proposal was unanimously rejected by UEFA’s national associations and by many other federations and confederations of all sizes around the world, whose job it is to protect football.“UEFA thanks all the fans, leagues, clubs, players, individuals, associations and confederations that opposed the scheme, alongside the many Prime Ministers, Heads of State and commentators who have demonstrated to the FIFA President that football is not for sale.“We cannot keep going on like this with secret schemes on fast track timescales, cooked up by faceless individuals and of dubious benefit to the game. We must identify those responsible and hold them to account.“It is right that, in the coming days and weeks, UEFA will work with its associations and in close cooperation with other confederations to reflect on how this happened and devise a plan to make sure that it cannot occur again. That review should be thorough and fundamental. No option should be off the table. The current FIFA leadership has not only lost UEFA’s confidence but also that of many other members of the football family.“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. I have been this in the last 15 years of my life in UEFA. You will have to play a part every day in the life of FIFA,” before telling the assembled stakeholders, “The money of FIFA is your money. It’s not the money of the FIFA President. It’s your money. 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.“And with reserves standing at over $5bn, he has also failed to use associations’ money for the benefit of the game.“UEFA will begin work immediately with partners and stakeholders all over the world and right across the game to propose a new way of distributing resources through the existing FIFA Forward programme.“We must start to use some of that money that is sat idle in FIFA’s bank account to deliver the kick start that the grassroots and the wider game need in each of the 211 countries of FIFA. But we don’t need to sell off the family silver to pay for it.“This is a victory for the whole game. But it must not be the end of the story. The proposal has gone. The task of rebuilding trust in FIFA has only just begun.”UEFA’s damning statement places even more pressure on Infantino’s position in charge of FIFA.His failed FFE proposal faced almost total opposition across the board, with CONCACAF and the AFC joining UEFA in publicly slamming the plans.With the proposal reliant on FIFA’s 211 Member Federations voting it through, the opposition of three continental federations left Infantino facing 143 votes against his pitch.The FFE was a plan to roll the World Cup’s broadcasting, licensing, ticketing and sponsorship into one big company.Infantino’s FFE project had intended to raise hundreds of millions of dollars by selling off chunks in the commercial rights of the men’s and women’s World CupsUEFA are headed up by president Aleksander CeferinGetty20 per cent of it was then going to be sold to private investors, with Infantino in line to make millions.The private stakeholders would have then got a say in what happened to the World Cup as well, but this will no longer materialise.Infantino was already under intense scrutiny in his role as FIFA president this summer following the World Cup and the manner of Folarin Balogun’s suspended ban.USA striker Balogun was cleared to play against Belgium in the last 16 after his red card ban was suspended for a year after intervention from US President Donald Trump.This is a developing story and is being updated.For the latest updates, breaking news alerts, and comprehensive analysis, refresh this page or follow our real-time news coverage by watching and listening to talkSPORT live.For broader context, explore related coverage on our homepage for the top trending stories. 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