The International Federation presented on Monday to national federations a study that would testify to the economic benefits of the reform. Its president, Gianni Infantino, does not explore a vote in the coming months.
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From his long political career Gianni Infantino shot a skill that confines funambulism. King of Esquit, the President of the International Football Federation (FIFA) wishes to move masked to endorse the major project of its mandate: the establishment of a World Cup organized every two years for the men’s teams and Female, with redesign of the international calendar.
Monday, December 20, at the end of a “world summit”, in videoconference, with 207 of the 211 FIFA National Federations, Mr. Infantino did not give a date on the holding of a vote of the Congress of the Instance to ratify the reform. But it has clearly taken an extra step towards this election deadline.
Evasive about the calendar, the world football leader did not “abandon the idea” to organize a vote at the next FIFA Congress in March 2022 in Doha (Qatar). If he undertakes to pursue the negotiations with the world of football “in January and February”, Italian-Swiss does not impart the hypothesis to convene an extraordinary congress before March on the question.
“Everything is open, everything is flexible, he said. It’s not a matter of date, but of good decision. It can take time but it can also go faster.” Before Counting its support: “If I went to a vote tomorrow, I think a majority would vote for (the project). We continue to talk and see the reactions.”
While the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and the Confederation of South America) are categorically opposed to the Biannual World Project, Gianni Infantino attempted to consolidate its election base by unveiling two studies ” Independent “on the expected economic benefits of the reform.
Under these “feasibility studies”, conducted by Nielsen and OpenConomics, FIFA asserts that the establishment of a biennial world “would provide a combined additional income of $ 4.4 billion [ 3.9 billion euros] from the first cycle of four years “.
” The gap becomes too big, we must fill the gap “
“These additional revenues would increase solidarity funding at potentially $ 25 million (compared to $ 6 million) on average by National FIFA Member in the first four-year cycle”, develops the proceeding, Which table on “an increase in gross domestic product of nearly $ 180 billion and the creation of two million full-time jobs over a period of sixteen” if the reform was endorsed. And this, while FIFA voted in 2017 the enlargement of the World Cup of 32 to 48 teams from the edition of 2026.
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