Opinion
The World Cup soon with 64 teams? You’re insane!
FIFA wants to advise you to have 64 teams compete at the 2030 World Cup instead of 48. A complete absurd idea. And yet it fits into the concept of the association.
Whenever you think, absurdly it is no longer possible, FIFA comes from somewhere. Actually, one would slowly be used to the fact that ideas from the World Association around Boss Gianni Infantino regularly lead to headaches because you keep your face in front of your forehead. World Cup in Qatar or Saudi Arabia? It is actually no longer crazy. Actually. Because one thing you have to leave the gentlemen: they are and remain creative, if not in good.
On Thursday, FIFA announced the following: They wanted to check whether it would not be possible to send 64 teams into the race for the hundredth anniversary of the 2030 World Cup instead of the normal 48 teams. Slowly you get neck pain from shaking your head.
The FIFA is already sawing on the original Idea of the World Cup
Sure: Such a anniversary should be duly celebrated. Especially since it is the largest recurring sports tournament in the world. And somewhere you even understand that the advance comes from the organizer Uruguay. For the country, the 1930 World Cup is still part of its football DNA. It is all the worse that it only gets an opening game.
Because the anniversary World Cup is held in six countries on three continents: in Spain, Morocco and Portugal as well as an opening game in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Apart from the travel traps of the players who have to commute between these countries, the FIFA with this patch carpet on the original idea of the World Cup: to bring a country and its culture closer to the whole world.
And now should also play 64 instead of 48 teams? You are completely insane!
Are we still talking about the world’s largest football tournament or the F-Youth Bratwurst Cup in Holzwickede?
Isn’t it exactly the associations that repeatedly emphasize the performance principle? The best teams should compete with a world championship. With 64 starters, however, you quickly get the impression that every little football nation, which gets eleven players and a trainer, gets a ticket to the World Cup. What are we talking about here? From the largest football tournament in the world? Or from the F-Youth Bratwurst Cup in Holzwickede? Participation in the participant, I hear Trapsen!
In the coming weeks, FIFA will certainly face criticism (and then do not accept it). One will fabulous about the opportunities of outsiders to be part of such an event, and how enriching it can be. If the World Association were honest, it would say: 64 teams mean more games, i.e. more TV broadcasts, i.e. more money-for us. It is another episode from the series “We don’t get our neck full”.
All of this is not yet a reality, and the proposal is still just a suggestion. But if you have observed FIFA in the past decades, you know that your desire to make more money is greatest. The idea of the bloated World Cup should not be excluded.
So you can already look forward to the ratings if a classic like Malta against San Marino on Tuesdays at two o’clock can be seen on some saving in the preliminary round and the teams bring a spectacular 0-0 over time. In this sense: Olé, Olé!
Source: Stern
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