2022 World Cup does not expand the army, and there is no hope for the national football team to enter the world cup
4hw.com.cn: some time ago, it was reported that the world cup might be expanded from the original 32 teams to 48, and then the plan was cancelled. It is still 42 teams, and the national football team is even more hopeless to enter the world cup.
Some time ago, FIFA president ivantino has been promoting the expansion of the 2022 World Cup from 32 teams to 48 teams. But on Wednesday local time, FIFA officially announced that it would abandon the plan. In the 2022 Qatar world cup, the participating teams are still 32.
Considering the effective hosting capacity of Qatar, ivantino had hoped that after the expansion of troops, Qatar's neighbors could bear some of the games. However, from the current situation, the complex political problems in the Middle East cannot be solved by FIFA.
For the failure of army expansion, FIFA officials gave this explanation: 'in the 2022 World Cup, the possibility of army expansion to 48 teams no longer exists. The general view is that military expansion is a political and logistical challenge. "
On June 5, FIFA will hold a general assembly in Paris, at which it will officially announce that there will be no military expansion in Qatar for the world cup. According to the original plan, the world cup will be expanded to 48 teams in 2026.
Under the current competition system, Asian teams have 4.5 places in the Qatar world cup. After the early expansion, the number of Asian teams will reach 8.5, which will greatly enhance the possibility of China's national football team returning to the world cup. However, with the failure of the 2022 World Cup expansion, the hope of the national football team has become slim again.