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    A world cup with 48 teams? Seriously Infantino this is turd. Why should i look for a tournament then Germany literally plays against countries like Togo, Cuba and Cambodia?
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      Editing … On the other hand it's ridiculous that countries like India, Tanzania, Kenya, Thailand and Vietnam have never sent a team to the World Cup because their continents are only allowed to send a third as many teams as the Europeans are.
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      Editing … Is it europes fault to have better teams then?
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      Editing … This isn't about which continent has better teams. FIFA allocates Europe 13 places at the World Cup before the first qualifying match kicks off. There'll be 13 European countries at the World Cup Finals no matter how good or bad European teams are. Meanwhile Africa is only allocated 5 places at the World Cup Finals and no matter how fantastically African teams play in the qualifiers there'll only be a maximum of 5 African teams in the finals.
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      Editing … Asia and South America are only guaranteed 4 places each, CONCACAF (North America, Central America and the Carribean) are only guaranteed 3 places and Oceania isn't guaranteed a place at all. Teams from Oceania, CONCACAF, South America and Asia get to compete for two extra places that aren't allocated to a specific continent. Again, no matter how good the teams are those continents won't be getting to send half as many teams to the World Cup Finals as Europe does.
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      Editing … I am aware of that quota thanks, after following the wc since 1986. My points are others as FIFA is only goaling to get more money. They have made no thoughts about the effects of these changes. Like how many countries will be able to host such a world cup...
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      Editing … "Is it Europe's fault to have better teams then?" seemed to imply you think Europe earns its 13 places rather than just being guaranteed them by FIFA before anyone kicks a ball. It's meant to be a World Cup but our continent's guaranteed more places than 4 other continents put together, it's daft.
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      Editing … One solution would be a larger World Cup Finals with the new places allowing other continents to send more teams. A better one would just be taking places off Europe and allocating them to other continents. Personally I'd just favour guaranteeing less places to specific continents and having more inter-continental qualifiers.
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      Editing … Europe got its 13 as their teams almost make The wc at quarterfinals to a euro. The System was Made to represent The strengh of a region(kind of). The additional places (16) will go in its majority to asia and africa.
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      Editing … Would like to see more intercontinental too, screw the regions. Start in phase one with all 230? countries to reduce them in playoffs to 128 and then 64. Phase two as a group with 16 a 4 and phase three the now abolished wc of 32 system. But no one cares about that...
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      Editing … To be fair it's hard to get excited about the details of reforming quotas and qualifiers when the next two World Cups are being hosted by dictatorships who got that right through bribery and so far FIFA's reforms only amount to papering over the cracks.
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      Editing … A potential list for 2026 (from kicker magazin): Europe (16 teams): Germany, Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Wales, England, Croatia, Poland, Italy, Iceland, Netherlands, Turkey, Slovakia, Hungary Africa (9 teams): Senegal, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, DR Congo, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ghana Asia (8,5 Teams): Iran, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, United Arab Emirates, China, (Qatar) North / Central America (6,5 Teams): Costa Rica, Mexico, USA, Panama, Haiti, Honduras, Curacao, (Jamaica) South America (6 teams): Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru Oceania (1 team): New Zealand
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