The World Cup United States, Mexico and Canada It brings together 48 teams for the first time in history. It is therefore the largest World Cup since the first edition started in 1930.. This summer’s test will be key to gauge whether it has been a success to open the tournament more but, whatever happens, it will not go beyond the 48 countries in the future.
This adventure has prompted some football leaders to dream of making it even more open, but it seems impossible in view of the response that just raising it has had. The 2030 World Cup with 64 teams, as proposed to Gianni Infantino, It is a project destined to fail, according to what sources from various Confederations have revealed to MARCA. UEFA is against, but also practically the rest. The idea comes from Conmebol, but even among some of its most important federations it finds significant detractors.
The 2030 World Cup being held in Spain, Morocco and Portugal It is also special because it is celebrating the centenary of the great football competition. To commemorate this date, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay will host the opening matches of their respective teams. It was the representatives of these federations who asked Infantino last September at a meeting in New York to increase the number of participants. The president of FIFA listened, but there has been no movement beyond that proposal and everything will remain at that.
FIFA, in fact, already had many detractors at the time when it proposed the Club World Cup every two years, among them, the European Club Association itself. The calendar, as Aleksander Ceferin also confessed in his last visit to Madrid for the forum organized by Atlético at El Metropolitano, cannot be stretched any further due to the health of the players. In fact, the president of UEFA opened up to the opposite, to try to reduce it. A World Cup with 64 teams means more games and less rest for footballers during vacation time.