FIFA president Gianni Infantino says the plan to hold the World Cup every two years will provide a “dreaming opportunity” for countries and regions that have never won football’s showpiece tournament.
FIFA’s member associations are set to vote on the proposal in December and, if approved, a radically revised international calendar could be implemented as soon as 2025.
“Our job is to constantly think about how we can improve football in the world, make football truly global,” Infantino said at an event in Caracas, Venezuela.
“The FIFA President is the President of 111 countries (and territories) and all those countries (and territories) have the right to dream, dream like Vinotinto [Venezuela’s national team] Dream. They also have to be able to achieve that dream because if you have to dream of eternity, in the end, you end up doing other things.”
Infantino said that the brains behind the inaugural World Cup in 1930 may not have imagined how far the sport would progress and underestimated the suggestion that holding the event on a more regular basis would help it, reports Xinhua news agency. Reputation will decrease.
“When it was decided to hold the World Cup every four years, more or less 100 years ago, FIFA had 40 countries,” Infantino said. “It is time to re-analyze this issue.”
He added: “If Messi has to travel 350,000 kilometers to play the World Cup and 50,000 kilometers to play Cristiano Ronaldo … I think it’s normal that in June South Americans are a little more tired than Europeans Huh.
“Since 2002, Brazil has not won a single World Cup knock-out match against a European side … not in 20 years, and that is Brazil.”
The Confederation of South American Football (CONMEBOL) and European governing body UEFA have expressed their opposition to the idea of a biennial World Cup. The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and the Confederation of Asian Football (AFC) have said they are ready to discuss the proposal.
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