UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

	UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions(uefa.com)
	1202 points by dickfickling 45 days ago \| 658 comments
	tl;dr: UEFA and its 55 member associations announced they will boycott all FIFA competitions, including the World Cup, if FIFA proceeds with a proposal to sell ownership stakes in its tournaments to private investors. UEFA condemns the plan as being developed in secret without consultation, arguing that private ownership would subordinate football decisions to shareholder returns. The boycott will remain in effect unless FIFA fully abandons the proposal and provides binding guarantees against future private ownership.
	HN Discussion: ↑UEFA's stand is principled and correctly protects football from shareholder-driven decisions ↑FIFA and Infantino are corrupt; leadership should be removed and the boycott is overdue ↓UEFA's motives are self-interested, not about protecting the sport or people ↑The anti-private-ownership principle extends beyond football to tech, research, and other domains ~UEFA should go further and permanently fork away from FIFA to run its own World Cup