FILE - UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin, left, talks to FIFA President Gianni Infantino before a round of sixteen match between Switzerland and Italy at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File) UEFA has made clear that Gianni Infantino's apology and FIFA's acknowledgement of mistakes have not changed its position over the governing body's failed World Cup investment proposal.

A day after FIFA reaffirmed its backing for Infantino following a crisis meeting in Morocco, European football's governing body insisted the conditions it had set for avoiding a boycott of FIFA competitions have still not been met. UEFA says its position remains unchanged?

FIFA emerged from Wednesday's meeting in Rabat by admitting that "mistakes were made" in the handling of the now-abandoned FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal and confirmed that members of its senior leadership had "reaffirmed their full support" for Infantino's presidency. However, UEFA responded on Thursday by making it clear that neither the apology nor the public backing for Infantino had altered its stance.

In a statement shared with ESPN and The Athletic, UEFA said:" UEFA's associations were very clear about the conditions attached to the non participation in FIFA competitions." The governing body reiterated that two conditions had been established after FIFA abandoned its proposal to sell minority stakes in the World Cup and other major competitions to private investors."

First, the proposals to sell off the major competitions had to be withdrawn and secondly, assurances have to be made that such attempts to disfigure the game in this way will never be made again." UEFA concluded that those requirements have not yet been satisfied."

These conditions have not been met." Confidence in Infantino still not restoredUEFA also underlined that the issue extends beyond the withdrawal of the FFE proposal itself.

The organisation pointed back to the statement it released last weekend, when it declared that it had "lost confidence" in Infantino's leadership following the controversy. Reaffirming that position on Thursday, UEFA said:" In addition, UEFA made it abundantly clear in its statement on Saturday that it has lost confidence in Gianni Infantino's presidency.

That position holds." The governing body also dismissed the significance of FIFA's announcement that members of its management board had backed the FIFA president after the Rabat meeting."