​UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin (L) and FIFA president Gianni Infantino (R) are in open conflict (Odd ANDERSEN)Pressure built further on FIFA president Gianni Infantino over his handling of the now shelved private investment plan on Thursday with European football’s governing body UEFA reiterating their threat of boycotting the World Cups.Infantino may have thought he had bought some time when he received the “full support” of senior FIFA directors following an emergency meeting in Morocco on Wednesday but he was to be disabused of that by UEFA’s blunt statement.UEFA’s initial threat issued last Thursday to boycott FIFA competitions is widely credited to being pivotal in the plan being shelved.Infantino has come under increasing pressure, even from within his organisation, over his handling of the proposal, and calls for him to step down had grown since he abandoned it last Saturday.FIFA floated the plan, saying it could raise up to $4.2 billion based on a valuation of $20 billion for a new commercial subsidiary, called the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), which it proposed would run events such as the World Cup and Club World Cup.Although the abandonment of the proposal was one of UEFA’s conditions for them to withdraw their threat, they said on Thursday the second one had not been met.  “UEFA’s associations were very clear about the conditions attached to their non participation in FIFA competitions,” read their statement”First, the proposals to sell off the major competitions had to be withdrawn and secondly, assurances have to be made that such attempts to disfigure the game in this way will never be made again.”These conditions have not been met.”Whilst UEFA had welcomed the withdrawal of the plan last Saturday they had slammed Infantino and his “shabby, backroom, opaque deal”.Their tone had not changed in Thursday’s statement.”UEFA made it abundantly clear in its statement on Saturday that it has lost confidence in Gianni Infantino’s presidency. That position holds,” they said.Several of UEFA’s member associations have withdrawn their support for him in his bid to be re-elected to a fourth and final term in Rabat next March.A prominent critic of his Norwegian football chief Lise Klaveness is likely to pour more fuel on the fire when she holds a press conference on Friday.She has like UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said she is not interested in running for the FIFA job.However, she could be tempted into a change of heart by the recent events and emulate Kirsty Coventry at the International Olympic Committee last year in trying and becoming the first woman president of FIFA.- ‘Abuse of power’ -Infantino, who is at least spending time in a friendly country as 2030 World Cup co-hosts Morocco have publicly supported him, was also criticised by usually supportive South American governing body CONMEBOL.”The Council also unanimously expresses its concern regarding the repeated unilateral actions taken without resorting to dialogue or to the ins