07 May 2018

Bye-bye to one tournament, destroying another, and hello to third

Who would have thought that the 2017 event will be the last. Two weeks ago the world football organization (probably) is making its own plans for future international competitions, while no body is asking the players can they keep this tempo.
- Due to very poor ratings and sagging popularity FIFA has decided to completely abolish the Confederations Cup. Thus, champions from six regions played its last competition previous summer in Russia with Germany happens to be its rear winner.
- If this is already cancelled another has to be re-designed, and the burden has fall into the Club World Cup. Starting from 2021 it would be played every 4 years, it will last 18 days and is going to compete 24 teams, out of which half of them comes from Europe. This World Cup, volume (or part) 2, or short: mini-World Cup would be held in June and is going to be played in a period where will not overlapped with the national championships, especially those in Europe. In brief: everything is going to be wrecked with this 'revamp'.
- African and Asian continent are still silent about this new tournament, in Europe and North, Central America and Caribbean (CONCACAF) are both waiting for September to begin, and FIFA is introducing its own: Nations league. The concept of this new (global) league is going to be the same, and months of playing will be September, October and December.
Launch of the mini-World Cup and global Nations league (described here) have to be discussed later this month, and already some European leagues are opposing the projects. And for financing these new two debut leagues, FIFA relies on private sponsors which will gather around 21 billion euros in a 2021 - 2033 period.

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