UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino has urged stakeholders to be more "realistic, reasonable and pragmatic" after the Spanish league challenged FIFA's plan to switch the 2022 World Cup dates.
Qatar plans to spend around £150billion on infrastructure in the run-up to hosting the event in seven years' time, although there is a certain amount of uncertainty around it with investigations ongoing about the bidding process.
The 2022 edition has never been far from controversy, with FIFA's announcement in March that it would be played in November and December to avoid the fierce summer heat infuriating clubs and leagues.
The Spanish Football League (LFP) has filed a lawsuit with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over FIFA's decision, with its president Javier Tebas claiming the move will see them lose 65million euros (£46.2million).
Tebas claimed the Premier League, Bundesliga and Serie A supported the Spanish league's move but Infantino challenged that claim.
"Well, on the La Liga challenge on the Qatar World Cup, I'd say even their EPFL (European Professional Football Leagues) has agreed to new dates of Qatar," he said.
"I think we need to take a little bit of heat out of this whole discussion. We need to be a little more realistic and reasonable and pragmatic on certain things.
"We don't need to take ourselves too serious on certain things. I mean, the World Cup is the best team competition in the world and it tends to be played, if at all possible, in the best possible conditions.
"If this means that for one year in a 150 years of history in football, as our president says, we change the calendar for one year it'll not be the end of the world.
"Of course it is not ideal but we UEFA has agreed to this, the associations are happy with it, the vast majority of the leagues are happy with it.
"The European Club Association including the Spanish clubs, members of La Liga, are happy with it so I don't know if maybe the chairman wants to get publicity or whatever else.
"But it is a bit sad that people don't accept decisions taken by the vast majority. You cannot make all the decisions unanimously because otherwise you never take any decisions, anywhere."
Infantino was speaking in Prague at the end of UEFA's Executive Committee meeting and, unsurprisingly, had to field a number of questions about FIFA.
Sepp Blatter announced on June 2 he would step down from the presidency of the sport's world governing body at an extraordinary congress to be held between December and March. It followed the crisis that engulfed FIFA, with 18 people indicted in the United States on football-related corruption charges.
Infantino said no discussions were had at the ExCo meeting on when the presidential election should take place, while underlining that UEFA has always been in favour of reforms.
"We have, the executive committee of both FIFA and UEFA, we have serious responsibilities," Infantino said. "They have to govern world football, and this is not something you can do just like this.
"In the meantime Mr Blatter announced that he is going to step down a new congress will be organised, these are all new facts that have to be taken into account. We will know more about the positions of everyone on July 20."
Source: PA
