FIFA
president Italian Gianni Infantino / AFP PHOTO / ALFREDO ESTRELLA
FIFA
president Gianni Infantino promised to come good on a promise to hike Africa’s
World Cup finals berths to nine or ten during a visit to the impoverished West
African state of Mauritania this week.
“We
want everyone to have the right to dream and how better to do that that taking
part in a major event such as a World Cup,” Infantino told a press conference.
During
last year’s hotly contested FIFA elections Infantino promised African
federation chiefs that if elected he would increase the continent’s meagre five
World Cup berths in a new look competition featuring 48 nations rather that the
current format of 32.
“Of
the 48 teams scheduled for the 2026 World Cup nine or ten will be African.
We’ll be working on that,” the Swiss head of world football promised.
The
expansion of the World Cup, passed by the FIFA Council in January, comes into
effect for the 2026 tournament.
The
Infantino proposal will feature 16 first-round groups from which winners and
runners-up qualify for the knockout phase.
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