Football lovers don't want the World Cup every two years

Virginie Phulpin 7:30 am, September 9, 2021

The international football federation defends the idea of ​​a world cup every 2 years.

Arsène Wenger, now FIFA Development Director, has already given a lot of details about this project he is promoting.

For Virginie Phulpin, the World Cup must instead continue to take place only every four years. 

That it is necessary to review the football calendar, that is not the shadow of a doubt.

There are matches all the time, a lot of no interest, new competitions every 4 mornings, and if you don't follow football closely, honestly, you don't understand much.

So on the observation, we can all agree with FIFA.

But to solve the problem and revive the public interest, the solution would be to double the dose of world cups?

Virginie Phulpin does not understand the logic well.

All we will succeed in doing is that even the World Cups will have less interest. If you miss one, that's okay, after all, the next one will be behind very quickly. So it amounts to gleefully trampling the history of football by transforming the exceptional into ordinary. So beware, there are some interesting things in what Arsène Wenger said in L'Equipe. When he says that there are too many international cuts, four in the year, that it chops the seasons of the clubs and that it tires the players, okay. Look at the France team has just played three qualifying matches for the World Cup, the Blues meet again next month for the League of Nations and in November for other qualifying matches. It's too much.

The idea of ​​having only two international breaks in the season, but a little longer, seems interesting to me.

But why are we not considering putting this in place, without touching the World Cup every four years? 

There are still many national federations that support the FIFA project.

It serves their interests.

Let FIFA not come and tell us that this proposed reform is not guided by the lure of profit.

To others.

Doubling the dose of World Cups will bring in more.

And so FIFA will redistribute to the national federations afterwards.

Admit that it helps to agree.

And incidentally, it also encourages re-elect Gianni Infantino as president of the international body in two years. Things are well done. But when FIFA says this project is for the good of everyone who loves football, from players to supporters, stop the jokes. Yes, there are big names supporting it. But these are retired players. Not the ones who are going to have to be on deck every summer. There will be risks of wear and tear, physical and mental fatigue, and it is the game that will suffer.

And as for the supporters, it's funny, but in fact, most associations are up against this reform. They are just never consulted. FIFA wants to see them as simple football consumers, so according to them, the more of them, the happier they are. It is very bad to know those who make football live as well. After a while, we can organize World Cups every six months, there will only be tired footballers to play them, and no one to watch them.