FIFA considering staging the World Cup biennially

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Posted by Peter K on Mar-03-2005 02:21:

FIFA considering staging the World Cup biennially

Discuss

btw, biennial means every two years

Posted by TCB on Mar-03-2005 02:32:

what is it now ever 4 years? i think it should be every 3. 2 years would be nice it just seems to often and not enough time to prepare for them id say.

i think its just a money grab! world cup = big $$$$

Posted by InterMilan31 on Mar-03-2005 02:38:

Re: FIFA considering staging the World Cup biennially

quote:
Originally posted by Peter K
btw, biennial means every two years

Thanks for that lol

Uh it should stay at 4, its a good waiting period sorta like the Olympics it makes it special.

Also if it goes to every 2 years what happens with the Euro and the Copa America tournaments.

What Fifa should do is scrap crap tournaments such as the Confederations Cup and Gold Cup and try something like this:

Fifa World Cup
Uefa Euro(pean) Championships
Copa America (Include the US Canada and Central American countries)
African Nations Cup
and the Asia Cup

Posted by verndogs on Mar-03-2005 04:25:

Re: Re: FIFA considering staging the World Cup biennially

quote:
Originally posted by InterMilan31
Thanks for that lol

Uh it should stay at 4, its a good waiting period sorta like the Olympics it makes it special.

Also if it goes to every 2 years what happens with the Euro and the Copa America tournaments.

What Fifa should do is scrap crap tournaments such as the Confederations Cup and Gold Cup and try something like this:

Fifa World Cup
Uefa Euro(pean) Championships
Copa America (Include the US Canada and Central American countries)
African Nations Cup
and the Asia Cup

+∞

keep it the way it is

Posted by noikeee on Mar-03-2005 13:13:

keep it at 4

i agree with intermilan3 there, but not too sure about getting rid of confederations and gold cup. they're like.. nice friendly tournaments for the teams to prepare for the real stuff

Posted by fastmp3 on Mar-03-2005 16:14:

keep the shit like it is now

Posted by mentalbarter on Mar-03-2005 17:59:

whats their reasons for changing it?
fuckos, fifa's full of twats

Posted by mentalbarter on Mar-03-2005 18:07:

hmmm i found this:

In the France Football interview Blatter suggests that the notion of a biennial World Cup should not be dismissed with unseemly haste. The logic behind it is to actually reduce the volume of international fixtures and thus ease the pressure on the calendar.

The qualifiers for the continental championship, says the argument, would double as the qualifiers for the World Cup. It would require that the finals of the continental titles were held in odd years and the World Cup finals would follow in the next even year.

So, say, if the European Championship was held in 2005 the World Cup, using Euro as its criterion of qualifying, would follow in 2006. A qualifying process would then be played, as now, for World Cup 2008 and then, again, the race would be on for Euro 2009, which in turn would act as the qualifying course for the 2010 World Cup.

The idea has some merit for it would virtually eliminate all friendlies in two years of every four, dramatically easing the international schedule and the burden on players and yet increase the volume of real, competitive games. It's not as silly as it sounds.

What works against the theory is the notion that the World Cup's attraction, or one of them, is that one has to wait four years for it. And I for one concur.

The four-year wait makes the World Cup special, gives countries decent time to build their teams and I fear the trivialisation of the tournament if it was to run every two years.

Besides, the enormous amount of money spent on the World Cup may not be affordable at two yearly intervals. How many sufficiently developed countries are there that could hold it if the World Cup doubled its frequency? Somehow I don't think this one of the Blatter innovations will get up.

from http://www2.sbs.com.au/opinions/index.php3?id=54791

Posted by nettwerk on Mar-04-2005 00:25:

Re: Re: FIFA considering staging the World Cup biennially

quote:
Originally posted by InterMilan31
Also if it goes to every 2 years what happens with the Euro and the Copa America tournaments.

Just what I was gonna ask.

No, really, things are smooth as they are right now. What's the big deal with friendlies anyway?

Posted by InterMilan31 on Mar-04-2005 01:25:

Blatter is a twat

Posted by kypez on Mar-04-2005 05:52:

+∞

Keep it at 4 years. Its tradition.

Posted by RubiK Cube on Mar-04-2005 12:33:

quote:
Originally posted by InterMilan31
Blatter is a twat

+1

It should be left as it is

Posted by sensorium on Mar-05-2005 03:50:

Change it to 2? This is nonsense. It's like trying to change pregnancy from 9 months to 4 1/2. Will not happen.

Posted by Eddie N MIAMI on Mar-05-2005 04:09:

quote:
Originally posted by ierxium
Change it to 2? This is nonsense. It's like trying to change pregnancy from 9 months to 4 1/2. Will not happen.

great way of putting it

4 is the best, leave it the same
but maybe every 3 years isnt too bad either
but 2 no

Ben (Intermilan31) made some good points in the 3rd post.

Posted by Ian on Mar-05-2005 13:52:

Blatter is a knob, simple. He can't leave anything the way it should be and he should focus on more important things like kicking racism out of football for good and punishing those who abuse it

Posted by fastmp3 on Mar-05-2005 15:18:

quote:
Originally posted by ierxium
Change it to 2? This is nonsense. It's like trying to change pregnancy from 9 months to 4 1/2. Will not happen.

now you're talking !