BBC Sport's Simon Stone reflects on the unravelling of Gianni Infantino's plans to sell off stakes in Fifa competitions.

UEFA says it and “other members of the football family” have lost confidence in Gianni Infantino, accusing the FIFA President of a “shabby, back room, opaque” deal after plans to sell a stake in its competitions were abandoned.

Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell off part of the World Cup has backfired and has now been scrapped. Following this summer’s tournament in North America, it emerged that Infantino was looking for private investors to buy a stake in the competition for somewhere around $20bn.

Uefa has lost confidence in the current Fifa leadership of Gianni Infantino as the fallout from the scrapped controversial investment plan intensified.

By Ian Ransom and Kokkai Ng Aug 1 (Reuters) - FIFA president Gianni Infantino, hitherto untouchable at the helm of soccer's global governing body, suffered a crushing blow on Friday when his bold reach for private equity riches was brought to an end in the face of a ferocious backlash.

Gianni Infantino's FIFA presidency is on life support after his abandoned attempt to sell a stake of the World Cup to private equity draws international outrage.

Fifa president Gianni Infantino is in the eye of a storm after his attempt to sell stakes in the World Cup. If he goes, who comes in?