Gianni Infantino, FIFA president, says the organisation will mull over expanding the World Cup to 64 teams.
In a chat with Blue News, a Swiss news platform, the FIFA president said the relevant committees in the organisation will examine and discuss the expansion in the near future.
Infantino equated giving “smaller countries” opportunities to participate in the World Cup with handing those nations “incentive to keep improving”.
“That’s definitely an issue that will be examined and discussed in the relevant committees after this World Cup,” the FIFA president said.
“When organising a World Cup, it’s important to organise it for the whole world—not just Europe and South America, but effectively the entire world. Every nation should be allowed to dream of participating in the World Cup. You can see that the quality of the teams is extremely high—and it’s getting higher and higher, all over
