A bold adventure its the treasure map for modern globetrotters and discover. Some of you will record breaking sites on your back youtube and now also in book form. Were interested in the global economy, our portfolio d w business beyond. Heres a closer look at the project. Our mission. To analyze the fight for market dominance. East. This is wes. Good. Us ahead with the w business beyond on you to when you a hey unless youve been living under a rock youve probably heard of peoples shiny new Player Holding the world cup every 2 years. Instead of 4, though by any old world cup may feel weird at 1st and having more of a good thing really be so bad. Anyway, plenty of people think its a great idea that fans want to see meaningful matches and this is the same for, for the players. Plenty of people stand to benefit from it. Need to be einstein to know that if you do to world cups in 40, as he was babel the revenue and plenty of people think its the dumbest idea theyve ever heard of. The jewel of the world cup has value precisely because of its rarity, much like the acne, that insured. I spent prom night playing fifo all alone the 2 year world cup cycle. A soccers newest problem that just wont go away. And this issue cant be solved by occasionally washing your face. So what is the proposal . Why does it have more support than you might think . And just why might it destroy the sport we know and love deeper, has enlisted one of the brightest minds in football to work out their plan. Legendary arsenal coach, an enemy of jackets everywhere. Arson, venga, the idea is to curb but balls crushing fixture congestion. To make the game more equitable for smaller countries and to give the players a much needed rest. Ah, if the problem is having way too many games that doubling the amount of world cups for both men and women is an obvious solution. Details are subject to change and fif a didnt respond to a request for a concise written version of the plan. But from what we gather, the gist is as follows. The proposed calendar eliminate smaller competitions to emphasize the meaningful tournaments like the world cup and continental tournaments. Currently, their International Breaks in september, october, november, and march plus the typical tournaments in june and july. Vendors got 2 proposals, either condense all of the qualifying into one big old 4 to 5 week break in october or to Shorter Breaks in october and march. Thered be a guaranteed 25 days of rest after tournaments in june to make this possible smaller competitions like the nations leak would presumably have to be scrapped while people has proposed cutting down on qualifiers to big tournament. No matter what happens, world cup qualifying will be reformatted to make way for the expanded tournament in 2026. This would cut interruptions in the club season and reduce back and forth travel for players, especially those that cover long distance. This is a mixed fact for clubs who can stay constant International Breaks, but probably arent too jazzed about month long qualifying. The premier league cuts announced its against the proposal, but the plan is so controversial, not because it condenses fixture breaks it because it doubles the frequency of the world cup. Here again the precisely the filter to be determined that the idea is for world cups to occur on given years and regional tournaments like the copa america and euros to occur on odd years. Some of these tournaments like the ap connor gold cup are already held every 2 years. And look, im one of the few people on the planet that unabashedly loved the gold cup. But having spent my formative years going to buy any or tournament, i cant say it was any better for a vendor. And he thought you have a point fixture, congestion is a huge problem. Seems like theres always a match on in every 3 years. And theres some new competition. According to 5th pro, the International Players association, the pandemic to me further exacerbated fixture congestion with the likelihood of players having fewer than 5 days recovery after games of 10 percent. The pro has taken a stand against the proposal, which is called a turning point and how the game is run. The pros also conscious of the overload of fixtures. The proposal could bring this is a real concern for the player to have to cope with near non stop travel and play. Thats both increased injury risk and its clearly cut down on the quality of the game in the last year. So port petrie alone played 589 matches for club and country in the 2021 seasons. The existing problems are basically mainly the mountain. Huge amount of traveling and problems to basically go from one content into the delta and come back into fresh stated play of grain straight away, gainful cup from good. And its not just exhausting for the players. According to ca. Yes, football observatory, a majority of soccer fans think there are too many matches on, especially between national teams. But doubling the number of world cut wont help that even if smaller competitions are gotten rid of the immensely popular continental cuts arent going away anytime soon. And doubling their frequency wont help either condensing, international brakes is an interesting idea, but its a solution you can implement without a biannual world cuff. People argues its not just about giving the body a break. Many former players have come out in support of the initiative because they room having had so few cracks at glory played from my National Scene for 14 years, but only managed to qualify for one welcome. And i, i would certainly jump, but the chance of as of having the opportunity to qualify every 2 years, twice as many world cups gives players twice the opportunities to achieve their dreams. And only a monster would want to deprive any one of their dreams. But fifo has already ensured that more nations will be represented in the world cup by expanding it from 32. 00 to 48. 00 teams. Starting in 2026. Just because you have more frequent world cups doesnt mean it will magically be easier for teams to qualify. In fact, its probably going to just be more of the same to account for this infant. Tina has even floated an idea where teams cant qualify for 2 consecutive world cups to help ensure a broader participation. If theres one thing soccer needs, its a 2 tier system to further entrench inequalities. And no matter where youre from in the world, very few fans can actually afford to make it to the world cup anyway. Unless v for actively works to make tickets more affordable or with partners to help make tournaments more accessible, this wont change any time soon. Ah, i mean if he was overall argument is simple people of the world cup, why not double its frequency doesnt and know that math does seem pretty air tight. It misses the point. Most of the world cups magic lies in it. Being in a rare seismic event. Any though this isnt just about a shot, a glory. Its about footballing justice for the smaller teams of order so much more for building countries. It is an opportunity for them to flip them over the hill. Maybe we can dream about they not to war. Cope one de la day is one of d. W. Sports as experts on african football. And has been covering cops response to the proposal while footballing, superpowers in europe and south america have spoken out against the proposal. Many of its backers are nations with much fewer resources and silverware to their names. Many of going to phase want. This is the app, the like the idea of a by any oracle. So half really once it and the idea is there felony as an opportunity to africa for the. Ready full cost to live when he said the continental football locally and, and give more money to the small our fees will probably wound reach to what called many countries see this as a means of even the playing field, generating more revenue and providing both more opportunities for meaningful games and chances to qualify for the big show where theyve historically been cut out. Bangladesh, mount eaves, napoleon, sri lanka, f a, its put out a statement supporting the proposal. Its easy for countries on top of football, screwed chain to defend the status quo. For players, fans in officials that can only dream of ever attending a world cup. This could make it a reality that also means important payouts for players and cash strapped affairs when they participate in the tournament. Again, easy for well off europeans to bad, and i at is this simply a question of footballs, halves and half mouth, squaring off. Dont put balls down trodden, desert justice. Its true that the soccer world is appallingly inequitable. This has to be fixed, lining peoples pockets probably isnt the best way to do that. Sure, most peoples revenue does filter down to a phase and increase revenue means more cash for smaller nations. But why should we believe that bits money will suddenly be fairly shared, even if the african, if he is get more money every 2 years and problems are still debbie. He mirage play as to europe every, every year. And a domestic leagues astroglide in many african countries are partial in south africa, about home, egypt and morocco. So the problems are still there. And how do result these . Weve been with more money every 2 years is still an issue that needs to be discuss. A real football robin hood would ensure that resources are justly divided and spent specifically on growing the game itself from supporting poor leagues to training coaches and building out infrastructure. Otherwise, cash has a way of tending to disappear in global football. And you dont need more world cups to divide soccers money more equitably. Theyre in no way mutually exclusive. Which brings us to the bald swiss elephant in the room. This is about as play in the cash grab as cash grabs debt. We will however, in all the discussions and analysis put the sport think element as a priority, not the commercial element. The sporting element, we know very well. Dont need to be einstein to know that you should do toward cups in 40. As she was babel the revenues are given that 95 percent of people revenue from 2015 to 18 was generated by the 2018 world cup. Its not exactly stunning that thief, a happens to think doubling the number of world cups is a good idea. But this reflects one of the biggest problem with fee fun, other stakeholders for them, the worlds most popular game is a personal piggyback. This outlook leads to terrible decisions like hosting the world cup and guitar are, i dont know, having a world cup every 2 years. I mean, im personally from relative footballing men out of the united states, and i still think its a terrible idea. Frustratingly, the proposal was initially supposed to open up a debate about how football is organized and then each down to the word to decide though, what is the best for food, but honestly much a fif us proposal is pretty interesting. Condensing, international brakes, playing more meaningful matches and fighting for grassroots support for smaller footballing nations makes a lot of sense. Sadly, its all attached to the bright new biennial world cup plan. And though for many of us the sounds insane, it cant be laughed off. Some of the bad ideas and football like making woman players wear skirts or the European Super League might have been brushed away. Others like the guitar world, copper champions, League Reforms werent. 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