Hello customer, are you ready for the 64-TEAM WORLD CUP?
>>150996999Sure, who gives a fuck. The Qatar one was fake and why not ruin the game even more than they already have. I'm sure as hell ain't watching.
They should do 2026 with 64, i'll take anything to avoid stupid group format with best third places advancing
>>150996999I'm not saying i agree but football is now so popular worldwide they could easily do 64 now (and more brubes for Gianni)
>>150996999How much expanding required to guarantee China and India spots?
Can't wait for the group stages be 80% Albania VS Uzbekistan tier games
>>150996999yeah I won’t be watching
>noooo not more teams, le world cup is supposed to be about la crème de la crème of elite footballers going head to head to see who will carry his country to the most prestigious golden dildo in world sports keking my kek so hard world cup has always been a fake and gay circus made for casuals and tourists, international football is complete marketing slop and only morons give two shits about it. if you think about the very essence of what makes football so great international football makes a mockery of that
are there even 64 different countries lol?
>>150996999I won't pay attention to it whatsoeverJust for the record, if you're reading this Infantino know that, no matter how many miles north you may emigrate with your cardboard suitcase and how many saudi arses you may kiss, you will always be a goddamn terrone ritardato e prescritto
>>150997370correct
>>150997370>>150997404absolutely delusionalthe World Cup is the most prestigious trophy a football player can ever win
>>150997421back to your containment thread, bernd :)
>>150997259Both are still too shit even if it's 128
>>150997421oh yeah, most prestigious, shiniest, most glamorous but still fake and gay and not football
64 is better than 46 for group numbers but let’s be real here and serious, 16 is the best number for tournaments and 32 is bloated but ok for being more inclusive and allowing a few exotic teams to qualify
>>1509974212014 was the last real world cup after wards clown world started like immediately
>>150997490suppressed homosexuality absolutely radiating from your posts pal>>150997547yes, agreed
>>150997566you're radiating overt homosexuality
>>150997404Oh wow a brit doesn't like the world cup
>>150997044It's a load of bollocks Swedish guy
when the fuck are the big European FAs leaving this corrupt fucking dumpsterfire and just start their own international football tournament? If England/Spain/France/Germany leaves that's fucking it. Nobody is watching FIFA anymore with those 4 gone.
>>15099699Here’s what I expectUEFA: 20 / 54CONMEBOL: 8 / 10 (LOL)CONCACAF: 6 / 32OFC: 1 / 11AFC: 12 / 46CAF: 12 / 54Two spots for winners of an additional quali tournament between representatives of Asia, Africa, Oceania, and North AmericaThree spots reserved for hosts. If somehow fewer hosts (unlikely except China or the Saudis pay extra), then the tournaments get expandedThese changes will be permanent. They will say it is a jubilee thing first, but then sell it as such a roaring success that is so great for the sport and the fans that it must be kept. Abandoning the 3rd place advancement rule will also be an argument, I suppose. They will market it as a fan-friendly „we listen to you“ moment. I think they played 4D chess here: the first plan with 48 teams was 16 groups of 3 after all, which is even more catastrophic. So people complained and FIFA changed to 12x4, which coincidentally means more games and therefore more money. This will be similar
even from a financial standpoint I don't see the benefits. Nobody is tuning in to watch Uzbekistan v. Haiti in some pre-pre-groupstage match we now need to filter out all the shithole countries.
It should be 16 and the previous edition winner should automatically qualify.HOST: 1CHAMPION: 1UEFA: 1CONMEBOL: 1CONCACAF: 1OFC: 1AFC: 1CAF: 1the remaining 8 places should be decided to by coefficient based entirely on previous world cup results, I haven't thought about the weighting but basically you only want to give spots for teams that can get out of group
>>150997943Rolling with it, the teams qualifying (according to the world rankings would be)>EuropeSpain, France, England, Portugal, Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, Turkey, Ukraine, Wales, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Serbia, Poland, Czechia (missing out: Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Scotland)>South AmericaArgentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela>North AmericaMexico, USA, Panama, Canada, Costa Rica, Honduras (Next: Jamaica, Curacao, Haiti)>AsiaJapan, Iran, S.Korea, Australia, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE, Oman, Bahrain (Next: Syria, China, Palestine, Thailand)>AfricaMorocco, Senegal, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Tunisia, Cameroon, South Africa, Mali, DR Congo, Burkina Faso (next: Cape Verde, Ghana, Gabon, Guinea, Uganda)>OceaniaNew Zealand (Next: Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji)Lowest-ranked qualified team would be>OC: 83 (next: 148)>EU: 39 (next: 40)>SA: 49 (Next: 57)>NA: 65 (Next: 69)>AS: 88 (next: 92)>AF: 64 (next: 70)China still struggling and India being nowhere to be seen would warrant two more spots for Asia, probably at the expense of Europe and/or North America. It wouldn’t help India as of now, though
>>150996999My country is going to the world cup
>>150997259>>150997470256 Team world cup for 2034 one in Suadi ArabiaMight stock up with some Under 21 teams
>>150998110world rankings is not a good way to base it entirely on for several reasons
>>150998029First of all, we can assume that the federations and countries profiting from expansions pay FIFA in return. Then, it’s about officials there being in contact with other donors. Uzbekistan may not be a super wealthy country, but there are rich oligarchs and sponsors there - these might also pay. Then, you have Uzbek fans and people, an emerging market. Them tuning in is good in general, 30 million more customers … could be worse. But the big calculation is obviously: China, India, Indonesia, NigeriaStill, more games - more tickets sold, more new countries interested in broadcasting, more events, more TV time. The average game becomes less profitable, but it should still suffice for more profit overall Also, there is a benefit that transcends cash, at least partially: it is about support in FIFA politics. The African and Asian federations want more spots in return for compliance, and FIFA can damage UEFA supremacy that way. That is still useful even when truckloads of cash are not involved right away. FIFA is willing to sacrifice the tournament‘s integrity for it
>>150998162I know, but how else can you give a glimpse of who qualifies? Guessing and choosing at random is worse. It’s just a small example
>>150997915>hen the fuck are the big European FAs leaving this corrupt fucking dumpsterfire and just start their own international football tournament?Never, because the top guys in those FAs getting whatever they want from FIFA. A model in Dubai to shit in the mouth? Sure. An underaged girl you can rape? Go ahead!FIFA is one of the most corrupt organizations in history and they and the FAs can do whatever they want whenever they want.
>>150997370You've just described all top-level professional football, though? If you were born post like 1995 you've never watched 'real' football.
>>150997470china is good enough but not india
>>150997915Wonder if the Sudacas would join if that were to happen
>>150998597+5 social credit points to you
>>150997421No, that would be the Champions league trophy
>>150997421I like how the people who disagree with this are all coming from countries that have zero chance in winning the WC
>>150998664lol no
>>150998664hahaha
>>150998667Well of course they're gonna disagree because if you're a player then winning the world cup mostly depends on what country you're from and not how good you are as a player. Haaland is world class but even he knows he will never ever be able to win the world cup. In club tournaments you can be a good player and get a transfer to a good team and win trophies based on merit
>>150998631China actually manages to qualify (sometimes)
Just do knockout with all 200 countries. Gibraltar vs Brazil would be kino
>>150998110>>150998144FIFA for all their corruption are a for profit company they can smell where the money is and there's a lot more of it rolling around - so maybe in the 2000s a 64 team WC wasn't feasible or profitable but now with the oil money laundering coming in it now is
>>150998293FIFA still hasn't truly cracked the US market which is what they really want so all the rich corrupt oligarchs and sheiks will have to do
>>150997370Such an english thing to say
unironically make it a straight-up KO tournament with every nationI want to see Germany vs Vanuatu, Brazil vs Sierra Leone, Italy vs Suriname, United States vs Luxembourg, etc
>>150998728umm thats exactly what makes wc better than cl, you cant buy players but play with who you have
>>150997547this, except clown world started like exactly 1 year after that WC.
>>150997915people would watch their own national teams but yes it would impact fifa's credibility
>>150997044I already quit futbol, it's a sinking ship
>>150998607Possibly.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA%E2%80%93CONMEBOL_memorandum_of_understandingThey were also planning to have CONMEBOL teams join the UEFA Nations League but that seems to be on hold.
>>150997044Dumb fucking gipsy SUCK my asshole faggot
>>150997259>>150998631China qualified for a 32-team world cup.
>>150997370Of course a meme country which barely qualifies would defend this shit. Kill yourself.
>>150999526yeah, once. Because Japan and South Korea were out of the qualification process and they got this group
>>150997370wtf? I like Egypt now
>64 teamsDont care not going anyways
india thailand vietnam cambodia are football crazy but have never seen their country in a world cup
>>150996999>Hello customer, are you ready for the 64-TEAM WORLD CUP?sure why not?32 teams were already too many
>>151002816>have never seen their country in a world cupThey aren't good enough
>>150998892>you cant buy playerslmao, look at all this canadians
>>151006946*these
>>1509975472018 was pretty good. You're dumb.Croatia's underdog run was GOAT.
>>150997547You're only saying that because Germany got btffo in group stages in 2018 and 2022.
>>150997370Kys, NOW
>>151006964You're right. Russia '18, despite France's victory in the final, is the last normal World Cup in a normal white/Christian country. After that, there was the 3rd world festival in Qatar and the farce with Messi, and after that, it's game over with 48 teams and the insane organization of the World Cup '30. And after that, Arabia 34. Europe urgently needs to rebel against FIFA.
>>151001333I, m not defending it I'm merely pointing out that you're morons for bitching about it while the whole thing is completely ridiculous, also my meme national team is more egyptian than yours is spanish so if anyone should loath international football it's you, and no I will not kill myself
>>150997370
>>151011148yes international football is the peak for fedora tippers and trannies
>>151002279funniest part is they'd fail in the same group today
>>150996999How is it the World Cup if not even half the world plays in it?
>>151012795How is it the World Series when only teams from two countries can qualify?
>>150998133The Netherlands would have qualified anyway, you silly bean.
>>150997300>80% of the games will be pure SOVLI might actually watch this sport after all
>>151013323Because the best players from around the world play in it
>>151009766I know you wanna be contrarian to fit with the cool guys but seems you're trying too hard.>muh raceMaybe /pol/ is more fitting for a brown who wants to roleplay as le based trad guy.
>>150997547agreed but 2018 was not that bad
El Salvador is IN
>>150996999Dude....
Only 64? We need more.We need to make sure India and China are in, and Qatar.And do a World Cup Tour for 4 months in all continents, including Antarctica with their own team, while leagues and international clubs and NTs still happen from 3 to 3 days. Travelling isnt so hard, is just a couple of hours
It's a money grab.
>>150996999I just want to see a World Cup where Palestine plays Israel and the players chimp out every tackle
>>150996999Nice
>>151006977it was meh tier at best
>>150996999free pass for us!
Just have literally every country in it and skip qualifying altogether. Qualifying is so boring it hurts. And the football calendar is so packed anyway, players are having to play way too much football. Just have every country in it. You can have earlier rounds, and the big boys don't come in until later rounds, but still have it all in one go as one big tournament in the summer.
>48 teams -- still no round-robin format>64 teams -- still no round robin formatThey should also allow "Modern" control schemes... and ensure that V. A. R. disallows, at least, 100 goals for <1mm of leg hair """offsides""".
>>151006946The sport will die in the arse and be nothing but another niggerball game, a la mutt sports. Even now, without tribalism, on merit, most sports are unwatchable as forms of entertainment. There is no point of nationhood in sport if all the teams are comprised of niggers, play alike as such, and notionally represent nothing but the reverse-colonisation by the retardate subspecies of the African continent.It's just another manifestation of global homogenisation ("globohomo"), via the weapon of societal de-homogenisation, enacted and facilitate by the Achilles heels left exposed after (((globalism))) began wreaking havoc.>chinks -- students; property>poojeets -- trade deals; I. T.>mudshits -- rapefugees>niggers -- sports
Scrap qualifying and make it a straight knockout competition so we can have kino like Tuvalu v Estonia, Bolivia v Nepal and Isle of Man v Lesotho. Round FIFA membership up to 256 by accepting CONIFA/Island teams. Have games played either home or away (draw is a replay) and only the Round of 16 onwards is played at central venues.
>>151034684>Scrap qualifying and make it a straight knockout competitionI see your gacha RNG 'competitions', and raise you swapping out the soccer ball for a die loaded by the House of Saud.
>>151034681motorsports aren't taken yet but they are fucking sanitized to hell and back
>>151034779That's only because niggers lack the spatial skills and real-time cognitive processing needed to drive at the highest levels.>genetic pull factors will still supersede the political push For example, we won't see poojeets winning slews of Olympic gold medals any time soon. However, as we have witnessed in wider society, the necessary lowering of standards for accommodating "The Replacements", is the pathway paved to undermining institutions, which then opens the door for the negrification process seen taking place in football.
>>150996999bye bye FIFAHello, Olympics
NINTENDO 64
>>150997370Pajeet-tier self awareness, please have more shame to post something so retarded like this next time, your word means nothing.
>>151034684This would be absolute bants. It would only take 8 rounds as well.
>won the last legit WC
>>150996999chinobros... i don't know if 5 years is enough to prepare our golden generation and beat the Maldives...
>>1510579772014 was the last legit one
>>150996999someone needs to punch Infantino in the dick.
>>1509975472014 sucked because there were huge protests in Brazil. Our media reported about it constantly, gave the whole tournament a bad SJW-vibe. Ungrateful brazilians!
>>151057977>that rigged nonsense>legit
Currently:>32 teams>group stage of 3 games per team qualifying 2 best teams for the 16-round>16-round, quarter-finals, semi-finals, finals/third place>worst teams: play 3 games at least>best 4 teams: play 7 games eachGet rid of group stage straight to the 32-round phase>worst teams: 1 game only>best 4 teams: 5 games eachThis is better however it results in too few games in total, which is bad for viewership. Any random pacific nation that qualifies has at least 3 games on the group stage. How to fix this?
>>150996999Does that mean Oceania will get 2.5 slots?
>>150998087That seems awful. An automatic spot for AFC, OFC, CAF, and CONCACAF while the only 2 relevant regions only qualify through coefficients makes no sense.4 years is a long enough time for a winning squad to fall apart or for a failing squad to reform into a legit challenger.Though I wouldn't be against a 16 team tournament with a giant 3-5 round qualifying process.Each confederation would hold a tournament to determine which squads get direct qualification to the WC, which ones go into the qualis at R1, R2, R3, etc. Then coefficients can be used to determine how many direct, R1, R2, or R3 spots each confederation gets. Similar to how the CL qualification process works.Just like being a champion of a weak league only gets you a spot in the first round of qualis for the CL being the champion of a weak confederation like the OFC would only get you a quali spot, not direct qualification. And teams that fail to top UEFA or COMNEBOL would still get quali spot even if they fail to directly qualify.
>>151067140Easy solution would be to just let the very worst teams (determined by the CocaCola meme list) have a group-elimination phase and then join the better teams in a tournament form.Problem with that would be twofold:1) No one would watch that group phase because it'd be complete trash (comparable to the women's world cup in quality).2) It'd basically be just another form of qualification. But extremely close to the event, further exhausting and disadvantaging the already weaker teams.
>>151033275they would chicken out like the Iranians do in all the Olympic competitions where they withdraw
>>150996999He's such an idiot100th anniversary should have 100 teams
>>150997370You almost made me sympathise with Israel for a moment. Almost.
>>151075451>100th anniversary should have 100 teamsSure. I'm certain some nations could field two or even more teams. Like Iceland.
24 teams, 6 groups of 4, top 2 qualify, best 4 3rd place teams also qualify16 teams is too small, 32 is too bloatedUSA 94 was where football peaked
>>151075623>best 4 3rd place teams also qualifyNever was a fan of this. Because any cross-group comparison suggests that all groups are equally competitive. Which everyone knows they are not.
>17 nations from Europe>8 nations from South America>1 host>1 each from Asia/Oceania (merged), Africa and North America>a second team from each of Asia, Africa and North America has a playoff against the three European teams
>>150997370A thread is up on /int/ as we speak calling you out for being anglo.
>>150996999It's almost like they want me to break up with football.
>>151067191Scotland v Tahiti could finally be real
>>150996999Based
