UEFA, THE GOVERNING body of football in Europe, has said no European national teams will participate in any Fifa competitions until the proposal to sell off part of the body to investors is scrapped. In a scathing statement released today, the association said that “no Uefa national teams will participate in any Fifa competition for so long as these proposals remain alive”. “Nobody should be in any doubt: Uefa and its national associations will oppose these plans with absolute determination,” it said. In its statement today, Uefa rejected the characterisation of the process as “democratic”. “This is not merely a profound failure of leadership, but an abdication of FIFA’s duty as the custodian of world football.”