[/quote]UEFA chief Michel Platini wants the
World Cup finals expanded to 40 teams from 2018 to
allow more African and Asian countries into the
tournament without reducing the number of European
nations represented.
Europe currently provides 13 of the 32 teams at the
finals, compared with five from Africa and four or
five, depending on the winners of a playoff against a
South American team, for the most populous
continent Asia.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter wrote last week that
Africa and Asia deserved more representation at
soccer's showpiece event because they had more
member associations than Europe and South
America.
Former France international Platini, widely regarded
as the most likely successor to Swiss Blatter in the
FIFA job, said by his own calculations that adding
eight more teams would require extending the
tournament by only three days.
"It's good for everybody," Platini told Britain's Times
newspaper in an interview.
"I totally agree with Mr Blatter that we need more
African and Asian (teams). But instead of taking
away some European, we have to go to 40 teams.
"We can add two African, two Asiatic, two American,
one Oceania and one from Europe."
European and South American countries have won
all 19 versions of the World Cup.
(Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Pter
Rutherford)[/quote]

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So my question is: How will the last group matches be played at the same time to avoid laxity?