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Is this the death of the World Cup?

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>FIFA is literally ran by a man named Giant Infant
Why the fuck is this allowed?

iceland was the death of international football

i like it, 48 teams means more matches for me to watch, more different teams and fresh underdogs for memes.

That's like going to an anime convention and taking a vote on who wants sex

Yes it is. Shitty teams that end up 3rd in their group now got a chance. Group stage is fucking useless now. Worse, it means that teams are more likely to draw instead of taking risks

wut

> majority of the federations

most likely just the shitty irrelevant ones.

the EC was boring enough and not just because we weren't there because with a smaller format we would not be even close. teams were playing for draws in the group stages BORING

No m8, it just makes the group stages irrelevant and rewards defensive football. Euro 2016 was the worst tournament in recent memory because of the format change.

Better question. Why is the guy that was doing the balls at champions league draws now in charge?

Kek

UEFA - CONMEBOL Inter Continental Cup when?
Fuck the rest of the world.

>48 teams

fuck off fifa

does this mean Finland gets to participate?

It's more like Johnny Baby if you translate

Welp I'm done watching this trash. Only soccer I ever watch too, now it will be watered down as fuck

More football is a good thing

Why do Euros let fifa ruin their sport? You already know how corrupt it is, why even bother?

A world cup in Qatar is going to ruin the sport, nobody wants to watch a middle east anything anymore.

Man up soccer faggots

>48 teams

Would be fucking trash. The 16 extra teams will be from CONCACAF, AFC, OFC and CAF. Beyond the current teams from those confederations that qualify for the World Cup, the quality is fucking abysmal (especially in Asia and North America)

world cup is a meme tournament

only casuals care about it

Guarantee that Ireland and Scotland are in favour, they pushed for 24 teams at the euros.
No.

Do they still have the shitty idea of a one game playoff for 32 teams to be in, with the losing teams being counted as part of the world cup?

>no 256 team WC

piss weak from fifa desu

Germany
Belgium
France
Spain
Portugal
Wales
Switzerland
England
Croatia
Iceland
Poland
Italy
Netherlands
Turkey
Austria
Ukraine
Russia
Ireland
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Sweden
Denmark
Czech Republic

Brazil
Argentina
Colombia
Chile
Peru
Uruguay
Ecuador

Costa Rica
Mexico
USA

Japan
Australia
South Korea
China

Ivory Coast
Ghana
Cameroon
Algeria
Nigeria

Europe should get at least 50% of all qualifying places. Will never happen though

I hate the idea of a 48 team WC, but dont act like UEFA doesn't have dozens of shit teams

More teams please, so we can qualify

The vast majority of UEFA's shit teams wouldnt get anywhere near the World Cup.

And of the shit teams that do end up qualifying from UEFA, literally every single one of them would walk into the World Cup if they were in Africa/Asia/North America/Oceania

this

groups were always irrelevant for casual goofs such as yourself. also Euro 2016 was a good tournament, def better than 2010 world cup and 2012 euro

>Euro 16
>Worst

What part of Englel are you from m8?

The Euro's was fucking brilliant. I can't understand why people think more teams = worse competition

Oh yeah, thats right. It'll be even harder for the English to """""Win"""""

Yeah Germany beating San Marino 8-0 is going to be thrilling

>The Euro's was fucking brilliant.
You must love defensive football then.

It was utter garbage.

San Marino won't qualify you fucking retard. The extra teams are still going to have to qualify to make it.

in what way were the euros brilliant? they were the lowest scoring and least interesting in years

The quality of those teams are gonna be trash. It's gonna make group stage absolutely awful to watch and the tournament will probably run for 2 months

Probably Welsh. It was the first tournament they'd qualified for in 58 years and based on their current WC qualifying campaign it'll be another 58. Well, until 2030 when FIFA extend it to 96 teams.

I forgot about Wales even being in the tournament.

Or Norn Iron for that matter.

>Do they still have the shitty idea of a one game playoff for 32 teams to be in, with the losing teams being counted as part of the world cup?

No, apparently they dropped it for groups of either 16x3 or 8x6 or some other group system into a round of 16 because playoffs would have been punishing on smaller teams budgets to travel over, play one game and then leave.

The fact that the US makes the world cup group stages means there's already too many teams...

you add maybe 1 week....you are a complete moron

>tfw Canada loses to Vatican City in the round of 192

Imagine being this much of a cuckold that you don't like the world cup

I'm from Scotland actually. Euro 2016 was shit even with the Iceland - England hilarity.

>groups were always irrelevant for casual goofs such as yourself.

What are you talking about? The group stages of Euro 2008 were great. World Cup 2014 groups were really good as well. Groups are usually the only chance for high scoring games at tournaments before the cagey knockout rounds - 7-1 being a recent exception.

32 teams is the right amount tbqh

>Platini was clear about why he wanted to expand the World Cup. He said: "[The World Cup is] not based on the quality of the teams because you don't have the best 32 at the World Cup ... but it's a good compromise. ... It's a political matter so why not have more Africans?

>tournaments that aren't powers of two
Bound to fail

At least we have a better chance of qualifying in my life time

>mfw all the extra slots go to UEFA

20 from Europe
12 from North and South America
16 from Asia, Oceania, Africa, Middle East.

Problem solved.

>Cardinal Vizotti scores a hat trick
>Canada can't score against the Swiss guard
we need this

underrated

fits well our current society
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They should keep it at 32 teams but expand UEFA to 20 teams and get rid of Africans

So wait, it's going to be this "16 groups with 3 teams per group silliness, right?
And TWO of those three advance to a knock out stage?
lmao

I was going to ask if the Swiss guard would be eligible, but apparently they all do have citizenship of the Vatican.

>self-hating Ivorian
This is new.

SA should get 20 teams, not Europe.

SA doesn't even have 20 countries

16 groups of 3 sounds awful

Wait, you guys DON'T want to watch Nicaragua take on Luxembourg on the world's biggest stage?

Every country is allowed a team in the World Cup in a knock out format with opponents drawn at random until the final.

Give me one reason why this wouldn't be the best format.

It's probably going to be:
>5 CONCACAF
>6 CONMEBOL
>16 UEFA
>10 Africa
>10 Asia
>1 Oceania

Luxembourg still wouldn't make it. If it weren't for the few players they have in the Swiss and Belgian leagues, which still isn't great, their best player would be a 16 year old.

odds are high the best team wouldn't win

Then they aren't the best team

Neither would Nicaragua. There's at a least 10 better CONCACAF nations, if not more. Yes, those shitty island niggers (not Trinidad or Jamaica) are better at football than them.

They should make the ball egg shaped and just throw it.

even the best teams can't win every time
there is an element of luck to the game
it's a fine system is you want a retarded rolercoaster of memes instead of actual sports i guess

Then why do we always get past the group stage

Have they ever even been in a World Cup? It's a Baseball country after all.

>10 Asia

shit teams could make it far and very good teams could go out early because they met a team that was better
final should be between the two best teams, doesn't always happen but there should be a system that makes it more likely

They've never even made it to the world baseball classic. Barely 16 countries even play baseball. What a shitty country

At least they've had some good boxers

Like some sort of round robin system.

Lel no, they don't even qualify to the Gold Cup.
And they don't qualify to the WBC either, so they suck at baseball as well.

Their "glory" days were in the 70s, before there was even a WBC
That's what they get for being socialist scum

Daily reminder that the FIFA as an institution is still inherently broken. Its allocation of profits and share of votes between countries effectively have it deadlocked in a situation where nothing will ever change towards better quality of tournaments vs. less profits

>strawweight boxers

Great idea, hope they also involve non-nations like "the homeless" and "the refugees"

>"the homeless" and "the refugees"
that's already us

do they ever talk about copying the ncaa march madness?

64 teams, no group stages

i bet the refugee team would really light up the homeless defense

FULL TIME PRIESTS

Not nice, Canada :(

read a month ago that they were going to keep the current QL system and the new pots were going to be

> 8 for UEFA
> 2 for Concacaf
> 2 for CAF
> 2 for AFC
> 1 for Conmebol
> 1 for OFC

cant tell if that's still standing up tho

you have to be honest here, the plague is the massive amounts of mediocre soulless european teams.

slovakia slovenia czech republic romania montenegro bulgaria, basically eastern european. that's why there are CONFEDERATIONS. it doesnt matter is slovakia is better than zambia, slovakia didn't qualify through europe, and now they dont play.

we all know the same teams make it in the end anyway, so why not eliminate more european teams, keep everything the way it is, and make things interesting? strong euro teams, two token us/mexico, too many african teams, maybe make it 3, and maybe make it 4 asian teams. and cut the euro slots to like 10. we could have a solid 24 team world cup again.

32 teams is the limit. i woke up at 730am, and would've woken up at 3am, to watch slovakia vs new zealand. because its the world cup and because its the love of the game. but this euros, i missed a bunch of the matches, and i was happy i did because they were boring and ultimately didnt make a difference. now the world cup is gonna be irrelevant like that too?

too much of one thing is never good, and the world cup is going to ruin its own prestige like this.

1.5 for OFC? 21 for UEFA? Don't think so.
I think the whole reason this make the WC bigger meme exists is due to the high population of Asia and Africa. (((FIFA))) really want to grow football in those regions.

this desu
>every team
>every game is broadcasted
>all games are single elimination
>random bracket seeding

It's stupid. Unless you are a huge economy you wreck yourself with a 32-team World Cup.

A 48-teams WC it's fucking suicide

can't see why not, most europeans are going to be in the first round play off probably facing each other, so the group stage is going to be pretty much the same as nowadays

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2022 is going to the USA anyway. Unless trump-chan thinks soccer is gay and doesn't want it.

From the last WC- Greece, Bosnia, Switzerland do not walk North America

Fuck, I meant 2026.

Trumps loves soccer, they got that. But then what? It can be US-Germany-Japan-US... Cycle for the rest of the time

Maybe they are trying to promote co-hosted WCs as a way to catch more undeveloped nations into this new format

THIS! The drawing would be so exciting. Some teams would be pissed because they got matched up with a powerhouse in rd 1 kek. Im actually doing this on fifa world cup 2014 video game and its made some great memes.

how can anyone think this is a good idea? HOWHOWHOWHOWHOW

Definitely this
We should invite Mexico as well.
>EEEH PU70

Are you upset about Cuadras and Estrada still?

Current Switzerland would desu

the Swiss easily would

Lel I'd be glad to get Switzerland in group stage. Ez fucking team. Hope they keep it up and become a seed for the 2018 cup.