FIFA candidate Figo proposes 48-team World Cup

Former Portugal winger Luis Figo launched his campaign for the FIFA presidency on Thursday by revealing plans to expand the World Cup to up to 48 teams. Unveiling his manifesto at Wembley Stadium in London, the 42-year-old said the expansion of the quadrennial tournament from its current 32-team format would be “weighted towards non-European teams”. One of his proposals for the World Cup is to split it into two 24-team tournaments played simultaneously on two different continents, followed by a final knockout stage in one country. Another of his key proposals is the distribution of half of FIFA’s wealth – $2.5 billion (2.19 billion euros) – directly to its member associations for spending on grassroots football. The former Barcelona and Real Madrid superstar also called for the restoration of the ‘old’ interpretation of the offside rule, “where a player is judged offside whether directly involved in the play or not”. Figo is standing against incumbent Sepp Blatter, Dutch football chief Michael van Praag and FIFA vice-president for Asia Prince Ali bin Al Hussein in the FIFA presidential election on May 29.

FiFa ruined football a long time ago…it’s no longer about the love of the game, a lot of politics has been injected in and greedy commercialism.

He better hold his horses he is flying close to the sun with his proposals

I like it this means more Africans team get to play in the final.

Blatter has made fifa to be more corrupt than Kenya government.

Fifa is business and sponsors need to see their teams there. Africans can do their own world cup limited to their world if they are not satisfied with what they get. Sasa countries kama kenya which have one small stadium na very old players zina right ya kucomplain?

HEHEHE SI TUANZE WORLDCUP YETU KAMA ICC , NA KINA MUGABE, BUT CRIASLY BLATTER AMEKAA SANA