CONMEBOL president makes official proposal to expand males’s 2030 World

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP)– Alejandro Dominguez, the president of South American soccer’s ruling body CONMEBOL, made an official proposal on Thursday to expand the males’s 2030 World Cup from 32 teams to 64.

FIFA is aware of the proposal that was first presented last March by a delegate from Uruguay during an online meeting of the ruling council of world soccer’s governing body.Advertisement “We are convinced that the centennial celebration will be special because 100 years are commemorated just once,”Dominguez said throughout his opening speech at CONMEBOL’s 80th Regular Congress.The 2030 World Cup is already set to be the most sprawling edition with six host

nations spread out across three continents.Uruguay was the initial World Cup host in 1930 and is scheduled to stage one game. Paraguay, Argentina, Spain, Portugal and Morocco are also co-hosts.”That is why we are proposing, for the very first time, to hold this anniversary with 64 teams, on 3 continents simultaneously,” added Domínguez.Advertisement Expanding to 64 teams likely would guarantee all 10 CONMEBOL member nations a place in a bigger tournament.

Venezuela is the just one that has actually never gotten approved for a World Cup.” This will enable all nations to have the opportunity to live the world experience therefore nobody in the world is left out of the celebration,”included Dominguez.If FIFA authorizes the relocation, it would produce a tournament of 128 matches, double the number of the 64-game format that was played from 1998 through 2022. Nevertheless, UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin has actually called a 64-team World Cup’a bad idea’. Critics of the 64-team proposal have actually argued it will damage the quality of play and devalue the certifying program

in many continents. __ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer