{"id":1355,"date":"2025-04-11T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asport.com.ng\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:40:46","slug":"south-america-pleads-for-an-edition-of-the-special-centenary-at-64-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asport.com.ng\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"South America pleads for an edition of the special centenary at 64 teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>At this rate, we may one day organize a World Cup with more qualified countries than planet Earth counts. While the next World Cup will already accommodate 48 teams, the president of the South American Confederation (Conmebol) Alejandro Dominguez officially pleaded this Friday in favor of a competition at 64 selections in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>To be quite fair, the Paraguayan leader intends to limit this proposal to the 2030 edition alone, that of the centenary, planned on three continents, &#8220;so that all countries can live the experience of a World Cup&#8221;. This enlargement would especially allow South America to welcome not three games as it is currently planned &#8211; the majority of the competition played in Spain, Portugal and Morocco &#8211; but the entire first round of one of the hens.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-placeholder\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper u-hidden\">\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" data-lang=\"fr_FR\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe are convinced that the Centennial celebration will be something unique, because only once they are 100 years old. And that is why we are proposing for once, carrying out this anniversary with 64 teams, in three simultaneous continents. For all countries to have the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CONMEBOL.com (@CONMEBOL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CONMEBOL\/status\/1910338847767937305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p-xxl@xs border-color-grey-200 radius-l@xs cmp-placeholder u-hidden\">\n<p class=\"mb-m@xs text-l@xs\">By clicking on<span class=\"ml-xxs@xs font-weight-bold@xs\">&#8220;I accept&#8221;<\/span>you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and thus have access to the content of our partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-xl@xs text-s@xs\">More information on the cookie management pagepolitics<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"mx-auto@xs flex@xs items-center@xs justify-center@xs gap-xxs@xs c-btn c-btn--primary cmp-button\">I accept<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>FIFA, never the last to consider an ever larger opening of its competitions, has not yet responded. The idea had already been advanced last month by the boss of the Uruguayan football federation, Ignacio Alonso. The International Federation had limited itself to evoking a &#8220;spontaneous&#8221; proposal, which it had the &#8220;duty to analyze&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media\" role=\"group\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ultimedia.com\/deliver\/generic\/iframe\/mdtk\/01357940\/zone\/1\/src\/xm3rf55\/showtitle\/1\/\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>UEFA boss, Alexsander Ceferin, already knows what he thinks. He had described this proposal as a &#8220;bad idea&#8221; on April 3. 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