Offer to invest US$25b in new Fifa Club World Cup 'discarded'
Infantino hopes to expand the existing, annual seven-team Club World Cup by turning it into a 24-club competition played every four years, starting in 2021. — Reuters pic
He is expected to put forward concrete proposals for the competition at a Fifa Council meeting in Miami on March 14 and 15. It was presided over by Victor Montagliani, the Canadian president of Concacaf, the Confederation for North and Central America and the Caribbean. Infantino did not take part in the meeting.
“It wants to show good faith and place the accent on a more even distribution of revenues from an expanded Club World Cup.”
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