JWSport Jacek Waszak – Sport journalist
Infantino: federations in the majority in favor of extending the tournament World Cup
The president (FIFA) Gianni Infantino said that most of the continental federations in favor of the extension at the world championships from 40 to 48 teams from 2026 years.
To discuss the idea of the extension of the World Cup took place during Wednesday’s conference in Dubai.
According Infantino continental majority support the idea of extending the World Cup. according to him it is financially attractive, would be a model with 48 teams.
FIFA president since the beginning of the legislature, and even from the campaign, told the opening of the enlargement of the number of teams the World Cup, although the first was mentioned by 30 countries. Swiss insisted, however, not for any particular format of the tournament. In one embodiment, representations were 32 out of 48 would take part in the additional elimination. In this way, they would have emerged out 32 teams that play championship under the old rules.
The latest offer would imply 16 groups of three teams, each of them two promoted by
to the next phase. Ideas to be discussed at the congress 9-10 January 2017 in Zurich.
Infantino also proposed that the World Cup did not take place in one or two countries, as before, and has been split into a greater number of national federations. As he argued thus used by a larger number of sports facilities, making them build and maintain more profitable.
