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mentalbarter
We Are Scientists

Registered: May 2002
Location: Newcastle
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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
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Mar-03-2005 18:07
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