FIFA plans to spend 32 teams currently 40 teams qualified for the World Cup 2026, according to a proposal to be discussed Thursday at the Executive Committee, do we learned from a source close to Fifa.
This proposal is part of a vast project of reforms that should be discussed by the Government of FIFA at a time when the institution was rocked by two further arrests of officials intervened at dawn in Zurich.
The proposal, unexpectedly, to spend from 32 to 40 teams from the World Cup-2026, if it is discussed and accepted, will not need to be submitted to the upcoming extraordinary congress of FIFA in February, and will be effective upon adoption by the government of world football, the source said.
Supported by some candidates to succeed the retiring FIFA president Joseph Blatter to 40 teams this passage answers the need of better development of football and is also in a financial perspective, the source close to the Fifa under cover of anonymity.
The award of the World-2026 process was suspended in June due to repeated scandals that shook Fifa, amid widespread allegations of corruption linked in particular to the allocation of the 2018 World Championships in Russia and 2022 in Qatar.
Six months after a first dragnet for suspicion of bribery, two other senior officials were arrested Thursday at dawn in Zurich at the request of the United States, a new replica of an earthquake that never ceases to shake the supreme body of world football.
According to an official Fifa told AFP on condition of anonymity, the arrests had two vice presidents of the proceeding, members of the Executive Committee: the Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout and Honduran Alfredo Hawit Banegas.
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