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Uefa says boycott may still go ahead as FA withdraws Infantino support.
Fifa's backing of president Gianni Infantino at a meeting on Wednesday "changes nothing", says European governing body Uefa.
Background
Football's governance disputes are usually settled by arithmetic rather than argument. FIFA's congress is made up of member associations, each with one vote, which means a European bloc can be outvoted by confederations with more members and smaller leagues. A boycott threat is the tool available to a confederation that has the money and the players but not the votes, and withdrawing support publicly, as a national association does here, is a way of testing whether the bloc will actually hold together.
Why it matters here
For Kenya the practical stake is not who wins the argument but what happens to development funding and to competition calendars while it runs. Kenyan football depends on FIFA and CAF programmes for facilities, referee training and youth competition, and any prolonged governance fight tends to slow those disbursements. KNN has reported on the shortage of accredited pitches and structured age-group football in Kibra, which is exactly the kind of thing those programmes are supposed to fund.
What to watch next
Whether the boycott proceeds, how confederations line up at the next congress, and whether development funding timetables slip.
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Fifa's backing of president Gianni Infantino at a meeting on Wednesday "changes nothing", says European governing body Uefa.
Background
Football’s governance disputes are usually settled by arithmetic rather than argument. FIFA’s congress is made up of member associations, each with one vote, which means a European bloc can be outvoted by confederations with more members and smaller leagues. A boycott threat is the tool available to a confederation that has the money and the players but not the votes, and withdrawing support publicly, as a national association does here, is a way of testing whether the bloc will actually hold together.
Why it matters here
For Kenya the practical stake is not who wins the argument but what happens to development funding and to competition calendars while it runs. Kenyan football depends on FIFA and CAF programmes for facilities, referee training and youth competition, and any prolonged governance fight tends to slow those disbursements. KNN has reported on the shortage of accredited pitches and structured age-group football in Kibra, which is exactly the kind of thing those programmes are supposed to fund.
What to watch next
Whether the boycott proceeds, how confederations line up at the next congress, and whether development funding timetables slip.
