World Cup every 2 years

I'd rather they dump the Euros, as well as every other International competition, and kept the WC to every 4 years.

Euro's in the summer, followed by the Olympics, AFCON over Christmas and then the WC next year. Most other sports have off seasons to rest and recover, the governing bodies of football seems intent on more fixtures.
 
omnomnom said:
Would devalue the competition personally
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Yep

"The many issues that football has faced have now been further exacerbated by the ongoing pandemic.

"It is important to review how the global game is structured, which should include whether the current four-year cycle remains the optimum basis for how football is managed both from a competition and a commercial perspective as well as overall football development.
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Global pandemic + World Cup with people coming from.all over the world, thats like the last thing you want?

What do the Saudis have to do with football anyway except betting? And money. If we scrubbed them from the game no one would care.
 
explicit4u said:
When they do give a reason it's usually completely made up .

There seems to be a weird desire to 'fix' football but so far it seems like every decision is half arsed and breaks more than it fixes.
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Basically over saturation is bad but the Saudis etc want more commercial revenue ASAP so want more world cups not realising that in the medium term viewer fatigue will diminish the benefit.

Why not just do the olympics and we every year? Just diminish the value of every medal and trophy.
 
I'm not sure what to make of this.

On the one hand, I've sometimes felt that four years is a long time to wait. It basically means if a player gets injured they can be waiting 8 years (half a career) between World Cups. As a kid, when you are perhaps the most interested/passionate about football (because once you are an adult there are many more responsibilities and indeed distractions), 4 years feels like an ABSOLUTE AGE. I basically went though the whole of secondary school without getting a proper world cup experience where you are chatting with your mates about it all the time, as England didn't qualify for '94, and '98 we'd just broken up to sit A-levels.

On the other hand, when you factor in qualifiers you'd basically be playing constant WC games. It wouldn't feel as special. Furthermore, the WC is arguably a lower standard than the Euros (due to naff teams from other continents qualfiying due to having an easier route) and we need a place for that.

I think I'd leave it as it is.
 
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