Gianni Infantino announces a new 32-team FIFA Club World Cup

Originally posted on BenchWarmers | By Sean Walker | Last updated 12/16/22

Gianni Infantino has just revealed that FIFA are planning on a World Cup for club teams in the year 2025.

The FIFA president has dropped yet another bombshell in his press conference ahead of the Argentina vs France final on Sunday.

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Infantino announced that the new competition will start in the summer of 2025 and that the ‘best teams in the world invited to participate.’

“The 32-team tournament will go ahead, making it like a World Cup.”

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has announced the new Club World Cup competition will start in 2025 pic.twitter.com/BE9V4k1xb7

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‘It will be a Club World Cup of 32 teams, every four years, and the first edition will be summer of 2025. They will be the best teams in the world invited to participate.’ Infantino said.

The tournament was initially planned to take in 2021 but had to be postponed due to the pandemic. FIFA seemed to have every intention of going ahead with this plan despite the fact that some of Europe’s biggest clubs have reportedly rejected the idea.

This is FIFA’s plan to rival the Champions League but it seems like the last thing these players need now is more football.

We have seen the congested fixture list that the World Cup has created and the many injuries that have occurred as a result.

Do you think this is a good idea?

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