News: Club World Cup to Expand; Confederations Cup to End

I agree, even mamic himself with sapina as vice president would have been better choice for fifa leadership than this money money-grubbing crook from original platinis team. football died the moment he was elected and fifa went the path of no return!

 

Wow. Interesting thing to wake up to. The CWC is something I watch from time to time in hopes that I grow to love it. I do think there should be some sort of FIFA "World Champions League". In fact, I've been dreaming this for years.

But now that this proposal is reality, I could see it being a nightmare.

I'd love to see the UCL be pared down a bit, but...money.

 

Don't know why, but I somehow like Čeferin. I hope he stays firm in his stance towards this matter.

 

https://apnews.com/1ab2cb97f2424415a679c2c8973dae50

Ceferin thwarted Infantino ... to be revisited during the next FIFA Council meeting in Miami in March.

 

Each team would have an off day in the Group Stage. If two groups played each day and clubs played every three days (more rest would be ideal), the schedule could be:

Day 1: Groups A and B
Day 2: Groups C and D
Day 3: Off
Day 4: Groups A and B
Day 5: Groups C and D
Day 6: Off
Day 7: Groups A and B
Day 8: Groups C and D
Day 9: Off
Day 10: Group A winner vs. Group B winner
Day 11: Group C winner vs. Group D winner
Days 12 and 13: Off
Day 14: Final

For the group with two UEFA teams, they shouldn't play each other first. If they played first and the game had a winner, that club would win the group unless they lost to the third club. If the two UEFA clubs played last, they would want to beat the third club by a lot to win the tiebreaker if they played a draw against the other UEFA club.

 

A shady business doesn't yield a bright future.
How about Infantino finally makes good on his transparency promises instead of constantly dodging the question, and it definitely is dodgy to rush a decision, to spread "buy my crap now" anxiety, to hide who (and why) wants to pay a price well above fair market value (e.g. a team that wins the global NL is promised up to roughly twice the amount of prize money that's put up for winning the World Cup), ...

 

There are so many problems with all of this that one barely knows where to begin. Once FIFA - and by extension, the federations of world football - accepted the premise of the Club World Cup which was almost entirely Chuck Blazer's brainchild since a) nobody else was bright enough to see the possibilities b) nobody else had the organizational skills to make it happen and c) nobody else had the level of raw, unfiltered greed it took to see it through, the world league was always the next logical step.

Infantino has the votes, almost entirely from countries which will never have teams involved in these things who he is blatantly bribing to come along for the ride.

FIFA exists as the framework organization for the world cup. Period. (We'll all be long dead before the WWC actually earns the money that they will be getting paid but the bottom line is that there's so bloody much money floating around that FIFA will continue to raise the utterly unjustified payout without the federations having to take a haircut.

(Also note that all this money going to "the women"is in actuality going to "the federations" who will continue to treat it like the slush fund they've been treating the money from the men's tournament for 50 years. "The women" of the world will see but damned little of it, aside from a very small handful of stars who will make out very well and, consequently, shut the hell up about everything else. Thus demonstrating equality: the men do the same thing - take the money and shut up)

Bottom line, FIFA will continue to use the only weapon they have - "participate in our system or get banned from our tournament" - until the major soccer nations decide enough is enough, refuse to play along anymore and set up an alternative tournament.

Until then, FIFA will continue to take all the players and teams they want,when they want and for whatever reason they want,use them to make vast sums of money and pretend they're doing it for the sport.

FIFA is incapable of change. Infantino is every bit as corrupt as Blatter.

 

Clubs play enough tournaments. FIFA should focus on national teams.

 

FIFA should just explode. I hate them! I hate all the FAs that are like "against" but just sit and watch FIFA destroying the game.

 

Of course, everyone said "Let's get rid of Sepp, noone could be worse that Sepp".

And here we are.

Believe me, there are a lot of people out there who would be far more effective at destroying the game than FIFA will ever be.

J

 

I am fully aware of that. I think I wrote here somewhere that Infantino will bring awful ideas to FIFA when he was elected. He's just sick guy, part of former sick alliance (Platini and Infantino) and can't be a good guy. Just can't.

Sepp was awful, criminal, crook, name him whatever you like, but there was one positive thing - no lunatic ideas like these that we read about today and that come from this clown's head. Turn every competition into 3-team groups! Give each team a bye-day! Qualify four years in advance. OMFG!

 

What still would have been better than this monstrosity that kicks-off in eight years.

 

čeferin has annual cash cow called champions league that gets bigger and bigger year after year, he has euro every four years, biggest leagues of the world are in his UEFA zone and he still added nations league on the top of all that. of course world cup is bigger than anything else but in total FIFA obviously feels losing a lot in between the world cups so that they are entering this fierce confrontation with UEFA and ECA in order to get the bigger piece of the cake called world football!

who is better? probably čeferin because infantino is the worst plague that football ever had, he personalizes greed more than anyone else, but I wouldn‘t say anyone should like čeferin because of that. he is just using what comes out of necessity to score points for himself and UEFA.

 

Totally disagree.
But won't argue about it here since this is not the appropriate thread.