Gianni Infantino to expand World Cup to 40 teams if elected

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Gianni Infantino to expand World Cup to 40 teams if elected Fifa president
• Infantino wants to introduce bigger competition if successful
• Success of expanded Euros prompts proposal for World Cup
Gianni Infantino
Gianni Infantino, Uefa’s general secretary, emerged as a surprise candidate in the Fifa presidential election last month. Photograph: Petr David Josek/AP
Associated Press
Tuesday 10 November 2015 04.47 EST Last modified on Tuesday 10 November 2015 06.05 EST
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The World Cup could be expanded by eight teams to 40 if Gianni Infantino is elected as the Fifa president.


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Infantino, the face of European competition draws as Uefa’s secretary general, revealed his first plans to transform Fifa after making a surprising late decision to enter the election.


http://www.theguardian.com/football/...d-cup-40-teams

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Fifa’s ethics committee to examine Wada report and Vitaly Mutko’s role
• Mutko criticised in Wada’s report into Russian athletics
• Sports minister is chairman of committee organising 2018 World Cup
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Athletics in crisis: explaining the damning doping report
David Conn
Monday 9 November 2015 13.04 EST Last modified on Monday 9 November 2015 19.45 EST
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Fifa’s ethics committee is to examine the World Anti-Doping Agency report into drug misuse in Russian athletics for potential misconduct by the country’s sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, a Fifa executive committee member who was heavily criticised at the report’s launch.

Dick Pound, the former Wada president who chaired the independent commission which found a huge “state sponsored doping programme” in Russia, accused Mutko at the report’s launch of having been “aware” and “complicit” in the doping and its cover-up. Compounding the difficulty for Fifa of the report’s devastating findings of government-sanctioned doping within the country hosting the 2018 World Cup, Mutko is the chairman of the committee organising the tournament.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/...world-cup-2018