Uefa World Cup boycott may be raised over Fifa plan
Uefa World Cup boycott may be raised over Fifa plan - Published Uefa's 55 member associations will hold an emergency meeting later this week to discuss...
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- Uefa World Cup boycott may be raised over Fifa plan - Published Uefa's 55 member associations will hold an emergency meeting later this week to discuss Fifa's controversial proposals to sell stakes in its major competitions.
- Football's world governing body has said it wants to create a new commercial subsidiary to run its main events, including the World Cup, and external investors will be able to buy stakes in it.
- Six of the eight quarter-finalists - and the winners, Spain - at this summer's World Cup were European.
- Fifa's argument that it is compelled to look at proposals that would help it grow the game globally has led to fears that, in the search for greater revenue, its major competitions - the men's and women's World Cup and corresponding Club World Cup - could be played more often and include more participants.
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Uefa World Cup boycott may be raised over Fifa plan - Published Uefa's 55 member associations will hold an emergency meeting later this week to discuss Fifa's controversial proposals to sell stakes in its major competitions. Football's world governing body has said it wants to create a new commercial subsidiary to run its main events, including the World Cup, and external investors will be able to buy stakes in it. Six of the eight quarter-finalists - and the winners, Spain - at this summer's World Cup were European. Fifa's argument that it is compelled to look at proposals that would help it grow the game globally has led to fears that, in the search for greater revenue, its major competitions - the men's and women's World Cup and corresponding Club World Cup - could be played more often and include more participants. This latest escalation extends a difficult relationship between Fifa and Uefa, which responded angrily to attempts to host the World Cup every two years when the idea was floated by former Arsenal manager and Fifa's current chief of global football development Arsene Wenger in 2021. Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin boycotted the World Cup final this month in...