«The fate of the Europeans with a possible biennial World Cup? The European Championships could also take place every two years ». Fifa president Gianni Infantino said this to the microphones of ‘Radio Anch’Io Sport’ on Radio1 Rai.
Then Infantino specified: “In Europe there is opposition because there is the world championship every week with the championship and the best players in the world, but in the rest of the world it does not exist: it is a month a year and a way must be found to include the truly world in football ». The World Cup every 2 years «is not a proposal from Infantino but from FIFA, 166 countries have been asked to carry out a feasibility study. The assumptions must be clear, 88% of countries, even the majority of European ones, asked for a study, and the study tells us that from a sporting point of view the world championship would work every 2 years: there would be fewer national matches but with more impact »continues the No. 1 in world football. «Italy participates very often in the world championship and the impact that participation has is very important from a sporting point of view. Only 32 out of 211 countries participate. When it was decided to play every 4 years 100 years ago, there were 40 countries in the world that played football, today there are more than 200 and this must be taken into account. Obviously, the economic impact is also positive, everyone would gain from it. The most important thing is that it is also a project to protect the national championships, there would be fewer stops. And also for the players themselves: there would be a break after the World Cup in July of at least 3 weeks to recover, something that does not exist today “he concludes.