Fifa president Gianni Infantino says biennial World Cup can help save African lives

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Fifa president Gianni Infantino has suggested reforms to football's calendar could help prevent Africans from risking their lives to migrate.

World football's governing body has put forward plans which include staging a World Cup every two years.

Infantino says more regular World Cups can help provide hope for some nations.

"We need to give opportunities and we need to give dignity, not by giving charity, but by allowing the rest of the world to participate," he said.

Infantino added: "We need to give hope to Africans so they don't need to cross the Mediterranean in order to find, maybe, a better life, but more probably death in the sea."

More than 23,000 people are missing as a result of attempts to cross the Mediterranean according to data gathered by the Missing Migrants Project.

Uefa, Europe's major leagues and South American football's governing body Conmebol have opposed plans for a biennial World Cup, while Caf, the African governing body, has given its backing.

Fifa delegates have been told switching the staging of football's biggest international tournament would generate £3.3bn in additional revenue over a four-year cycle.
 
It will also help fight world hunger, reverse climate change and cure cancer as well if it helps FIFA line their pockets.
 
"Infantino added: "We need to give hope to Africans so they don't need to cross the Mediterranean in order to find, maybe, a better life, but more probably death in the sea.""

Im pretty sure none of them were trying to get a ticket for the euros/world cup
 
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I’m sure there’s 100s of better ways FIFA can help with that issue rather than hosting World Cup every two years, so why even act like that’s a reason they’re doing it. What a dumb thing to say.
 
Apart from the fact it’s total bollocks, it’s not FIFA’s job to save humanity. If you are that desperate to flee your country due to war / famine etc. then you are hardly going to delay that to watch a game of football.
 
That the same Infantino who recently moved to Qatar ? Maybe he can talk to his local government about using literal slave labour to build stadiums (among other projects).
 
Could just use the huge profits that fifa pockets to fund projects in the countries people are fleeing from?

Hard to imagine someone being so shameless as to use such hardships for their own gain (with a straight face no doubt) but then again we are talking about the president of fifa
 
Aye...and giving the world cup to Qatar save a billion donkeys.

Why don't the footballing authorities hold an African footballing tournament there every two years instead...maybe they can call it the African Cup of Nations or something, that would help would it not?....oh wait.
 
More they and UEFA talk the more I want to see those 20 teams get back together and form the Super League.

FIFA makes Robert Mugabee and Kim Jong Un look decent upstanding citizens.
 
Can see it now, the country is being bombed to smithereens, gangs are raping and killing women you've just got to the med about to jump on a dinghy for a better life when little Ahmed says mummy please let's stay I might be able to play in the world Cup in 20 years time instead of 22.

Aye right, fanny
 
Will destroy domestic football. Uefa will want to go the same way. Football will be shite as the bigger countries will hoover up even more players. When will players rest?
 
So sick of just about every proposal these days, across various realms, being backed up with some form of blackmail.

"You don't want a World Cup every two years? So you're saying you want poor people to die"

Just fvck off. Absolutely had it to the back teeth
 
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