The position of the European Leagues regarding the World Cup every two years

The proposal that the World-wide of the FIFA celebrate each two years, instead of four, has generated a lot of opinions found. While ones consider that it would be a big opportunity to give him visibility to the party futbolística more important of the world, others have kept the posture that it would be to devaluate to the competition and cause more wear to the players.

Aleksander Ceferin Had been one of the first in pronouncing . It does some days, the president of the UEFA declared that "the World-wide has his value precisely for being each four years. A World-wide each two would devaluate it. The clubs and the selections have to occupy his sportive and financial space". Now, the European Leagues have gathered and keep the posture of the confederation: it is a very extreme measure.

After the meeting of his Council of Directors, celebrated in Nyon, Switzerland, the European Leagues have showed his "firm " and unanimous opposition to any proposal to organise the World-wide each two years", adding in a communiqué that will work beside the rest of parts interested to achieve avoid that "the organs of government of the football take unilateral decisions that prejudice to the national football, that is the base of our industry and of great importance for the clubs, the players and the fans of all Europe and of the world".

The Leagues consider that the option that puts the FIFA on the table does not solve the current problems of the football, as well as the competitions renewed or the expanded for the football of clubs and of national selections, that "so much to continental level as to world-wide level, are not the solutions to the current problems of our game in a calendar already congestionado".

Of the same way, in the communiqué have specified that for the Leagues is necessary a conjoint agreement between all the involved and "only can be the result of a subtle balance between the football of clubs and of national selections and between the football of national and international clubs", sentenced.

The Council of Directors of the European Leagues

The meeting in which the big European Leagues have showed against of the World-wide each two years, carried out with the presence of Javier Thebes (LaLiga), Matheu Moreuil (Premier League), Angsar Schwenken (Bundesliga), Luigi Gave Siervo (Series To), Pedro Proença (League of Portugal), Julien Taieb (LFP French), Sergey Pryadkin (Russian League), Claudius Schäfer (Swiss League), (Swedish League) (Danish League) (League Rumana), Marcin Animucki (Polish League) and John Nagle (English League).