Poland says Women’s World Cup plan on course despite UEFA boycott of FIFA
Poland says their preparations to host the Women’s Under-20 World Cup remain on schedule, despite UEFA-FIFA fallout. Hosts Poland have said that preparations for next month’s Under-20 Women’s World Cup remain on schedule, as the tournament prepares to become the first FIFA event staged amid the backlash against global football chief Gianni Infantino. It will be the first FIFA competition since UEFA’s 55 member associations unanimously voted to support a boycott of FIFA events after Infantino proposed, and then abandoned, a plan to carve off the commercial rights to the World Cup and sell 20 percent of them to private investors to raise about $4.2bn. The tournament is critical in the development for the women’s game,” a New Zealand Football spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday. France became the first nation to confirm participation in the 24-team tournament. “For now, France will be participating in the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup,” the federation said.
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That triggered a massive football governance dispute . “Preparations for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup are progressing according to the agreed schedule and have now entered their final stage,” the Polish federation said in a statement to the Reuters news agency on Tuesday. “The Polish Football Association (PZPN) has not received any information regarding the possible withdrawal of any participating team from the tournament.
