Football will never be the same, according to the FIFA president

The president expects a smaller, yet more significant, more competitive, more balanced football in the future that will "become more attentive to true values."

Infantino seeks to help change with reform plans. His ideas include coordinating the interests of clubs and national teams to include fewer national team weeks in league seasons than at present, but to last longer.

The president’s most ambitious project is considered to bring fifty national teams and fifty clubs around the world to the top level. FIFA hopes that in addition to their development programs, this will be facilitated by the 24-team club world championship, which should have started in 2021 but has been postponed due to the pandemic.

"We need fifty teams that can win the club World Cup, not just five or six European chances. And twenty of those fifty will be European, which looks distinctly better than today's five or six," Infantino said.

Although FIFA has long opposed regional-based tournaments, at the beginning of the year Infantino himself proposed the viability of the Pan-African League, which would mean a local market and higher revenue. This, in turn, would encourage African players to stay on the continent and not necessarily move to Europe.

Among the ideas that occupied the players of the sport, he referred to the reduction of the number of teams interested in the forefront, and partly related to the limitation of the number of matches per player per season. With the introduction of the latter, the larger clubs will be able to play all year round throughout the year, participate in lucrative tours, and it would only be a special task for the coach to rotate the players.

(Source: Source: sportrajongo.hu, mti / Photo: pixabay)