The Frenchman has responded to FIFA president Sepp Blatter's recent
comments, agreeing that more African and Asian teams should play in the
competition.
UEFA president Michel Platini has suggested that the World Cup should be
expanded to 40 teams to include more Asian and African representatives,
starting from 2018 in Russia.
There has to be something in the water in Switzerland, I mean there just
has to be that’s the only thing I can think of that explains the continued odd
behaviour and bizarre suggestions that constantly flow out of FIFA and UEFA, with
this being the latest one.
If Platini and Blatter want more Asian and African teams in the World
Cup then instead of meddling with the format and adding more teams, the
obvious thing to do would be to change the number of spots available
to European teams as it currently stands at 13, the next highest if the five allocated
to African teams.
It would be easier to change it so that European teams get 10 places and
the other three are distributed so that more Asian and African teams can take
part, by doing that you could make sure that nations like San Marino, Malta,
Faroe Islands Andorra, Luxembourg etc. have to prove they are good enough to be
in the qualification process, because they continually get thrashed and end up
on one or two points, and bring nothing to the table other than to boost the
goal ratios of the strikers of the teams who actually have a chance at
qualifying.
The current format of the World Cup is fine it works it doesn’t need to
be changed because you can have more Asian and African teams by making a change
to the qualification process, but that probably won’t happen because of the tap
water in Switzerland.
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