After playing the white riders against the super-villains of the Superleague and tailoring a few tailor-made suits to Gianni Infantino - with his World Cup fad every two years -, for which we are grateful to him, Aleksander Ceferin would he be nice doing it to us backwards?

Indeed, according to the

Daily Mail

, the president of UEFA would have asked his teams to work on a Euro format with 32 teams.

Not content with having already made us swallow an enlargement of this competition, which went from 16 to 24 nations between 2012 and 2016, the Slovenian does not seem to want to stop there.

Knowing that the body brings together a total of 55 European countries, this would therefore amount to qualifying 58%.

With the result that we can easily imagine on the quality of the show offered...

UEFA does not let go

Note that this is not the first time that this information has reached our ears.

As recently as last July, the Associated Press agency was already talking about this expansionist desire for UEFA by 2028. This just shows that the project is well and truly in the pipeline.

You should therefore not be surprised if, in six years, we live a Cyprus-Andorra on our site.

Asked about this reform in the

Daily Mail

, Maheta Molango, president of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), the union of professional players in England and Wales, also fears an impoverishment of the spectacle.

With, in the long term, the risk of a growing disinterest of the televiewers.

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It would only hurt the quality of the product, he argued.

Children are already not seeing the best version of their idols (with the 28-country formula).

It is reality.

Yes, there may be a short term financial benefit, but in the long term it will hurt the product.

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Faced with the infernal cadences, when is the Grand soiree for footballers?

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Molango wants to have a "conversation with UEFA"

And to organizations, one would be tempted to add.

With ever busier schedules, the risk to players' health is real, as we recalled in a previous article, after Thibaut Courtois' rant at the end of last year.

As such, Maheta Molango fears that the opinion of the main parties concerned will again be ignored.

“It's always a process where the players are presented with a fait accompli,” he complains, while promising to have “a conversation with UEFA” on the subject.

A commendable initiative, certainly, but will it be likely to bear fruit?

Nothing is less sure.

As Vahid Halilhodzic told us at the time, “for the players, it feels like 'play and shut the fuck up'.

Whether at FIFA or UEFA, everything is only political, everyone wants to impose their vision of football according to their own interests.

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