IOC members rage over plans for biennial soccer World Cup

By Team ISN February 3, 2022

Members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday vented their dissatisfaction over plans for a biennial soccer World Cup rather than the current four-year cycle, saying it would contrarily affect other sports.

FIFA said the extra funds would assist to reduce the gap in incomes among created and less created football markets.

However, International sports federations as well as the IOC, which sorts out the Olympics, Summer or Winter Games at regular intervals, have gone against Infantino’s plans.

A biennial World Cup would conflict with the Summer Olympics while additionally marking the Games’ business bid. At present the World Cup is held two years separated from the Summer Olympics.

The World Cup is the biggest international single sports event, ordering sponsorship and broadcasting bargains far more prominent than some other worldwide alliance’s occasion. A competition like clockwork would eclipse any remaining rivalries.

“We would like to discuss together with the FIFA President and IOC member but this is not possible now against the expectation, because he cancelled his visit to Beijing the day before yesterday,” IOC chief Thomas Bach told the IOC session.

Bach was reacting to sharp analysis coordinated at FIFA by a few IOC individuals, including National Olympic Committees of Africa President Mustapha Berraf.

“The plan (for a biennial World Cup) would create immeasurable damage and put sport in general in danger and in particular football,” Berraf said.

“It would simply push away other sports and relegate them to the back benches and that would be absolutely unacceptable.”