South America proposes 64 teams in 2030 | Football news

The President of the Conmebolll presents an official proposal for FIFA to expand the 2030 World Cup for men on the continent to 64 teams.

Alejandro Domingz, head of the South American Football Association, presented an official proposal to expand the 2030 World Cup for men to 64 teams.

The suggestion was presented for the first time last month by a Uruguay delegate during an online meeting of the FIFA ruling council headed by its president, Gianni Infantino, this municipal officials from Europe.

“We are convinced that the centenary will be unique because it is celebrated one hundred years only once,” Dumingz said during his opening speech in the eighty Conmolbol.

The 2030 World Cup is already scheduled to be the most likely version with six host countries scattered across three continents.

Uruguay was the original World Cup in 1930 and is scheduled to play one match. Paraguay, Argentina, Spain, Portugal and Morocco are also hosts.

“For this reason, we suggest, for the first time, holding this anniversary with 64 teams, on three continents at the same time,” added Dominguez.

There were 32 teams in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. This number will be expanded to 48 in the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada.

The expansion of 64 teams is likely to guarantee all ten member countries in Conmebolly a place in a larger championship. Venezuela is the only one that has never qualified for the World Cup.

“This will allow all countries to have the opportunity to live in the experience of the world, and therefore no person is left on this planet from the party.”

If FIFA agrees to this step, it will establish a 128 -games championship, double the number of formatting 64 games played from 1998 to 2022.

Infantino has been constantly pushed into larger and new championships in his presidency since 2016, where it has searched for more revenues to give FIFA 211 members and more opportunities for their national teams to qualify.

However, the UEFA president Alexander Severin launched the World Cup 64 teams “bad idea”.

Critics have argued that 64 teams suggested that he would weaken the quality of play and reduce the value of the qualified program on most continents.