CAIRO (AFP) – The Confederation of African Soccer on Friday (Nov 26) gave its assist to the “determination of the Fifa Congress to conduct a feasibility examine” for a World Cup each two years.
CAF is the primary confederation to formally and publicly approve the controversial plan to carry a World Cup each two years, on the identical tempo as its Africa Cup of Nations event.
The 54-strong confederation, at its extraordinary common meeting in Cairo, additionally voted in favour of building a Tremendous League for African golf equipment.
Fifa will maintain a summit in December with president Gianni Infantino nonetheless hoping to seek out consensus on plans to stage the lads’s event extra usually than the present four-year cycle.
It’s an incendiary subject given the assorted pursuits at stake, between golf equipment and nationwide groups, home leagues and worldwide competitions.
Opposition has been so widespread from leagues, gamers and supporters teams that the probabilities of a biennial World Cup truly taking place seem distant.
The World Cup has been performed each 4 years, other than cancellations throughout World Conflict II, for the reason that inaugural version in 1930.
The brand new biennial proposals have been put ahead by Arsene Wenger, Fifa’s head of worldwide growth.
The World Cup is increasing regardless in one other approach – the lads’s model to 48 groups from 2026 and the ladies’s to 32 groups from 2023.
CAF president Patrice Motsepe insisted that the biennial African Cup of Nations (AFCON) can be unaffected.
“The principle competitors for Africa, which is AFCON, will certainly proceed,” Motsepe advised a press convention.
“A part of the method is to make sure that the gamers don’t play extra matches or video games than they did traditionally.
“There shall be a basic evaluate of the competitions in addition to the construction that has existed over a few years.”
Motsepe added: “On this evaluate of the competitions in totality there shall be a concentrate on guaranteeing the competitions of the long run are essentially the most thrilling, the most well-liked and those that the viewers and the spectators discover to be most tasty.”
