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Icon4s:
I have read about the bolded too and that is nonsense. They better leave the thing the way e dey.

Hehehehe! FIFA wan do ojoro. Lol.

Sunday Oliseh's wish list. 1. Sylvester Ighoun 2. Paul Onobi 3. Chisom Chikitara 4. Tunde Adeniji 5. Efe Ambrose

safarigirl:
Please, I want us to analyze this 48-team World Cup plans very well because it's starting to look like some grand plan to keep the big boys at the top.

So, this morning, I came across some news on it saying the plan is to have 16 groups of 3 teams.

So, it's one team makes it out of the group.

Now, let's imagine these teams are brought about by seeding. So the top seeded 16 teams will each make it into one of the 16 groups each.

So let's imagine the top16 qualified teams on the World Cup are:

Brazil
Chile
Belgium
Italy
England
Spain
Germany
Argentina
Uruguay
France
Netherlands
Japan
Colombia
Mexico
Portugal
Ivory Coast.....

Just imagine these 16 teams in each group, at least 10 of them are sure to qualify from their groups, so why should the other teams bother? why should analysts bother? Save for England, Ivory Coast,Portugal, Japan and maybe Mexico, which other teams will any lower seeded team say with confidence that they can beat to qualify?

Where is the fairness in such a plan?

I mean, they can flood the World Cup with quantity, but by extension, they'll be ridding it of quality

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as in eh, it is just ridiculous and that's an understatement. I don't like that Infantino guy, he was among those that suggested that nonsensical alternative to the UCL(I can't recall the name of that idea again), where the top teams qualify for the champions league every season without even playing well in their domestic leagues and teams like Leicester will be left out no matter their output in their league. that's more like modern day diplomatic suppression of the lesser teams, and that's what he is trying to introduce here. the beneficiaries will definitely be the Europeans and the south Americans to a certain extent. the problem here is that if it comes down to a vote, you will still see some stupid African representatives who will vote for this system of.suppression because their own personal pockets will be enlarged. we tried to rid FIFA of corruption by electing another European, wrong decision, this is why I was supporting that Prince Ali guy.

meanwhile, do you think that they will include Ivory coast? I can almost bet my life that if this method is to be adopted, they will find a means to eliminate all the African teams from the top 16 teams before the tournament proper

Icon4s:
My sister it is still a proposal.

I understand your fear. Just imagine having a group like: Argentina, Nigeria and whoever. Or Germany, Nigeria and whoever, or even Brazil, Nigeria and whoever. Na die be that na.

If they want to make it 48 teams I would prefer 12 groups of 4 teams each. Here the 1st placed teams qualify automatically and the 4 best 2nd placed teams join.
With this format even if Brazil or Germany dey your group you still stand a chance of finishing among the 4 second best teams plus also you are sure to play 3 World cup matches.


People believe making 48 teams would dilute the glamour and standards of which I dnt completely agree. For eg, the following nations missed out in the last world cup: Holland, Sweden, Poland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Serbia, Czech, Egypt, Senegal, S.Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia, Morocco, Tunisia most of which are traditional world cup teams. The inclusion of any 16 from this list would even add more competition.

However, I would still personally prefer we stay put with the 32 Team format.

that's the beauty of it for me. you included Senegal, Tunisia and Morrocco, do you think these teams are better than the ones Africa presented? they were not good enough so the natural order of selection eliminated them. what positive impact would Peru and Bolivia add to the world cup if not to give the English team an easy opposition so that they can maintain their second round consensus? the idea makes me sick and we should not even consider it, unfortunately if everything goes according to plan, it will be Amaju Picnick who will be voting for Nigeria and I am not looking forward to that one bit

safarigirl:
Even the fact that countries like Algeria, Cameroon and Senegal could miss Russia, even Ghana if they're not careful would dim it a bit accepted.

I mean, seriously, who will rep Africa if those guys miss out? All this wahala is the fault of FIFA's flawed ranking and seeding

I prefer this your 4 best second placed teams to the 16 group ish

the teams that will rep Africa will be the same teams that eliminated them which means they were better. the last time Cameroon came to the world cup what happened? Senegal won't miss Russia trust me, and even if they do(probably to South Africa) it still isn't that bad for me. Ghana will.miss out to an Egyptian team trying to prove a point, not bad either

TheGoodJoe:

LOL. Constant game time. No part was played by the constant daily practices MSN made for months on the training pitch. Just game time.

As I said, it is baffling you guys attribute development more to the ninety minutes game time than the hours spent daily on the training pitch.

Has Rafinha at Barcelona not improved drastically, is it down to game time?

No, Rafinha hasn't, except if you didn't watch his games at Celta. he still plays exactly the same way. game time is important, besides Rafinha plays well enough for Barcelona over the course of a full season

Mickael2:
as in eh, it is just ridiculous and that's an understatement. I don't like that Infantino guy, he was among those that suggested that nonsensical alternative to the UCL(I can't recall the name of that idea again), where the top teams qualify for the champions league every season without even playing well in their domestic leagues and teams like Leicester will be left out no matter their output in their league. that's more like modern day diplomatic suppression of the lesser teams, and that's what he is trying to introduce here. the beneficiaries will definitely be the Europeans and the south Americans to a certain extent. the problem here is that if it comes down to a vote, you will still see some stupid African representatives who will vote for this system of.suppression because their own personal pockets will be enlarged. we tried to rid FIFA of corruption by electing another European, wrong decision, this is why I was supporting that Prince Ali guy.

meanwhile, do you think that they will include Ivory coast? I can almost bet my life that if this method is to be adopted, they will find a means to eliminate all the African teams from the top 16 teams before the tournament proper

Expanding the tourney to 48 teams will result in a massive dilution of the quality. Teams would be playing for penalties because Infantino's plan calls for penalty shootouts if any group game ends in a draw. That's just ridiculous.

I rather prefer a 40-team tournament with 10 groups of four teams. In fact, I believe it would be the 'compromise agreement' at the FIFA Council meeting on January 9-10.

As we all know that FIFA wants more money from the WC, there could be a knockout round of 32. This would mean that the top 3 in each group and the two best bottom teams across the groups would advance to the round of 32, and so on.
This results in a total of over 90 matches which could be played in a 6-week period.

Alternatively, under the 40-team plan, the group winners and the best six group runners up advance to the round of 16. This option 'only' guarantees 12 extra matches.

I bet that the European and South American FAs would favor the 40-team option because it guarantees that their teams would always be the 10 seeded teams; and UEFA could get 3-4 additional teams, while South America gets 5 fixed slots (in other words 50% of South American teams qualify for the WC).
African FAs will also vote for this option because Infantino promised 2 more slots to the continent.

safarigirl:
Please, I want us to analyze this 48-team World Cup plans very well because it's starting to look like some grand plan to keep the big boys at the top.

So, this morning, I came across some news on it saying the plan is to have 16 groups of 3 teams.

So, it's one team makes it out of the group.

Now, let's imagine these teams are brought about by seeding. So the top seeded 16 teams will each make it into one of the 16 groups each.

So let's imagine the top16 qualified teams on the World Cup are:

Brazil
Chile
Belgium
Italy
England
Spain
Germany
Argentina
Uruguay
France
Netherlands
Japan
Colombia
Mexico
Portugal
Ivory Coast.....

Just imagine these 16 teams in each group, at least 10 of them are sure to qualify from their groups, so why should the other teams bother? why should analysts bother? Save for England, Ivory Coast,Portugal, Japan and maybe Mexico, which other teams will any lower seeded team say with confidence that they can beat to qualify?

Where is the fairness in such a plan?

I mean, they can flood the World Cup with quantity, but by extension, they'll be ridding it of quality

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A bigger and more lucrative World Cup would help fulfill Infantino's election promises to FIFA's 211 member federations. He campaigned on adding eight teams to make a 40-team tournament and more than doubling development grants to $5 million for members from each World Cup.
It's all about politics and commerce for FIFA and Infantino.

The modern day player already plays alot of games durring the course of the season for both club and country engagements. Adding extra games in the off season in the name of world cup will be akin to asking the players to take performance enhancing drugs. Of which I believe would be legalised for athletes in the near future.
That's where we are heading to folks.

As an Arsenal Fan, it still eloped me to see Petr Czech on that best Goalie list. which Flight did he use to get there?


Conceeding in every game and fails to..... okay....


well at least I saw Denis onyango That guy needs more hype like the whites do theirs.


Oh I forgot we don't have such a effective media

Sources at FIFA say Infantino's 48-team option, which entails 16 groups of three teams and a knockout round of 32, is highly favored by most of the 211 member FAs.

The option is also favored by FIFA execs because a study shows that the body would earn an extra $1bn in revenue if the format is adopted in 2026 and beyond. On the other hand, the 40-team option only guarantees an additional $240 million in revenue.

My fear about the 48 -team world is that players especially those making it to the semifinals and finals would be overworked particularly after a long season of club football

comradefamous:
My fear about the 48 -team world is that players especially those making it to the semifinals and finals would be overworked particularly after a long season of club football

No. Same number of matches would be played. 16 Groups of 3 teams means 2 group matches as against the current format of 3 group matches. A knock-out round of 32 will reduce the teams to 16, which is equivalent to the current second round. So, still same maximum of 7 matches.

But can FIFA just please leave it the way it is?

Not every change is positive.

Mickael2:
that's the beauty of it for me. you included Senegal, Tunisia and Morrocco, do you think these teams are better than the ones Africa presented? they were not good enough so the natural order of selection eliminated them. what positive impact would Peru and Bolivia add to the world cup if not to give the English team an easy opposition so that they can maintain their second round consensus? the idea makes me sick and we should not even consider it, unfortunately if everything goes according to plan, it will be Amaju Picnick who will be voting for Nigeria and I am not looking forward to that one bit

You obviously do not follow much of South American football. What about Paraguay?

16group of 3teams is ok by me, a knockout stage before the 2nd round, more slot for Africa.

If it's 48 teams, the slot formula can be
UEFA -19
CAF- 8
CONMEBOL- 6
CONCACAF- 6
AFC- 7
OFC- 2.

There would be no intercontinental playoffs.

20years old Hannover right back Fabian Seninger on channels sports ,says he wants to play for Nigeria. how una see am

Nigerdeltaboi:
20years old Hannover right back Fabian Seninger on channels sports ,says he wants to play for Nigeria. how una see am

Coach Rohr could inquire about him from Hannover officials

CFCman:
If it's 48 teams, the slot formula can be UEFA -19 CAF- 8 CONMEBOL- 6 CONCACAF- 6 AFC- 7 OFC- 2.
There would be no intercontinental playoffs.

That's too much for UEFA.

daveP:
As an Arsenal Fan, it still eloped me to see Petr Czech on that best Goalie list. which Flight did he use to get there?


Conceeding in every game and fails to..... okay....


well at least I saw Denis onyango That guy needs more hype like the whites do theirs.


Oh I forgot we don't have such a effective media

Peter Czech won the golden glove last year na. He couldn't have been conceeding every game when he had the most clean sheets.

CFCman:
Coach Rohr could inquire about him from Hannover officials

yeah am astonished he came on live television ,I just hope he has quality

Nigerdeltaboi:
20years old Hannover right back Fabian Seninger on channels sports ,says he wants to play for Nigeria. how una see am

boss you de reach here too

CFCman:
If it's 48 teams, the slot formula can be
UEFA -19
CAF- 8
CONMEBOL- 6
CONCACAF- 6
AFC- 7
OFC- 2.

There would be no intercontinental playoffs.

see cheating o o o...

FIFA has never been 'fair' with it's game. From spot aloted to seeding down to awards giving without excluding hosting rights. All these favours d Europeans.

Imagine that small no f slots for South Americans who have won 9 out of 20 f d said competition. Abeg na Europe get country pass-even to d african continent 8 is still a small number compared to their 19 which will almost double their present slots.

I stand with Baba Icon4s on this, make dem leave am alone @ 32 teams.

kingphilip:
boss you de reach here too

yes o but na ghostmode sha

Nigerdeltaboi:
20years old Hannover right back Fabian Seninger on channels sports ,says he wants to play for Nigeria. how una see am

Very good player but we are filled on the wings so it will be hard for him.

tbaba1234:
Very good player but we are filled on the wings so it will be hard for him.

bros he plays as a fullback o which is our headache now.

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Merry Christmas in arrears shaa... Hope to see you all next year. Godbless

safarigirl:
see as this place dry.

Everybody go village? no service? I can imagine thesupernerd climbing tree to get service

Merry Christmas to my NL football family

Icon4s:
You obviously do not follow much of South American football. What about Paraguay?

I didn't include Paraguay as you may have noticed because they are good though not.great either, but Peru and Bolivia?! no nah, Bolivia?! please no

TheSuperNerd:
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Merry Christmas in arrears shaa... Hope to see you all next year. Godbless

COME I DONT OVERSTAND

Tevez earning "£1 per second"

The former City striker’s move to Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua will reportedly earn him £615,000-per-week. Meaning he is the highest-paid player in the world. That’s £32m per year, £88,000 per day, £3,600 per hour, £60 per minute and £1 per second.


No need to continue hustling. Yara Yara, shine my football boots.

Kelechi's impact is undeniable

Still doesn’t look likely to start though...


Squawka Football ✔@Squawka
Kelechi Iheanacho has been directly involved in a Premier League goal once every 75.8 minutes since the start of last season.

Goal magnet.

tbaba1234:
Very good player but we are filled on the wings so it will be hard for him.

Yes but let leave it for Rohr to decide