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“The World Cup is played every four years for historic reasons linked with the Olympic cycle,” Pinnick added. It has been like this for almost 100 years. We cannot stand still and say “it was always like this so it should remain this way”. To say this is absurd. We can add one more month every four years to organize the most beautiful competition in the world and find ways to protect the players, clubs, leagues, federations and Confederation’s interests and this is neither irrational nor absurd.
The quality and appetite for a great competition doesn’t come from the fact that it’s rare. The FIFA Confederations Cup was played every four years and it wasn’t really significant. On the other hand, we have the AFCON played every two years and Africa stops to see it with incredible passion. And we can still keep playing it every two years!”
“I would definitely like to see the results of the feasibility study that FIFA was asked to do by 166 countries, which I’m sure included many Europeans”, Pinnick continued.
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