Pressure to extend men by 2030 World Cup For 64 teams there is a “bad idea”, said UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin on Thursday.
Čeferin is a vice president of FIFA, who was part of the online meeting of the world football body of the world football body. unexpected proposal It was made by a delegate from Uruguay.
“This proposal may have been even more surprising for me than you,” Čeferin said at a press conference after the annual UEFA meeting in Belgrade, Serbia. “I think it’s a bad idea.”
It seems that the addition of another 16 teams to the 48-team lineup that will debut next year in North America has the support of President FIFA Gianni Infantino, who usually supports the expansion of competition as a way to raise money and increase game development worldwide.
The 64-team critics claimed that they would weaken the quality of the game-in what would probably be a large format of 128 Her-A depreciated the qualifying program on most continents with other offers.
“It’s not a good idea for the World Championship itself and it is not a good idea for our qualifications,” Čeferin said.
UEFA has 16 contributions to the World Championship in 2026, which the United States will host with Canada and Mexico. It reset the European qualifying format with multiple groups, now 12, and many teams playing fewer games are just 10 weeks from September to November this year.
Čeferin also questioned the origin of the idea of Uruguay, which is ready to host one game in 2030 in what is already the world’s most complex cup on three continents to celebrate the centenary of the tournament.
UEFA members Spain and Portugal are cohorching But with Morocco, he agreed that South American neighbors Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay have one game that every 100 years of anniversary. The 1930 edition was hosted by Uruguay.
“It is strange that we did not know anything before this proposal at the FIFA Council,” Čeferin said. “I don’t know where it came from.”
Infantino presented the main speech on Thursday at 55 UEFA Member Federations, although 64 teams do not refer to the World Championship.
FIFA has not provided any details on how and when the proposal will consider. FIFA has an annual Congress of 211 Member Federations on May 15 in Paraguay Asunción.
