CONMEBOL to back 64-team World Cup 2030 plan before FIFA | OneFootball

Alejandro Domínguez and CONMEBOL landed in Zurich for the FIFA Council meeting to defend their proposal for a 2030 World Cup with 64 teams, which was ratified at the summit held in New York in the absence of Javier Milei.

The president of the Confederation traveled with a delegation of 10 people, with whom he will try to gain supporters, on a global level, for the realization of the special 2030 World Cup with 64 countries.

It's worth noting that the idea was ratified at the last summit between CONMEBOL and the member associations and the position to move forward with the realization of the World Cup with 64 participants was consolidated, which would imply the number of matches to be scheduled on Argentine soil and neighboring nations.

Now, the next steps will be the ratification and search for consensus in the various FIFA councils and congresses that take place between this year and the next, prior to the 2026 World Cup.

Strong repudiation from AFA to Milei's absence at the political and sports summit for the 2030 World Cup

The summit held in the United States between FIFA members, CONMEBOL, and sports and political leaders from Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay centered the debate on the absence of President Javier Milei, originally confirmed for the meeting.

Unlike his counterparts Yamandú Orsi and Santiago Peña, the president did not attend the event nor did he send any representative on behalf of the national government. Milei's absence sparked a reaction on social networks from the Argentine Football Association, which had its president Claudio Tapia at the meeting.

The treasurer of the mother house, Pablo Toviggino, lashed out at the politician through his social networks for his "no-show" in New York, in the midst of the summit that gave a pass forward to realize the expansion of participants in the centenary World Cup.

"A government and a president who hate what is popular, hate football. Today Milei turned his back on the most important initiative in the history of South American football. While Conmebol approved the proposal for the 2030 World Cup to be contested with 64 teams and the entire group in Argentina, the little lion decided to ignore the initiative and oppose it," he charged on his X account.

He also pointed out that no one attended the meeting on behalf of the Government and noted about Milei that "only the 'rescue' of the fugitives concerns him". "Perhaps as in FIFA the 3% rule does not work, the issue does not interest him," he added ironically, recalling the scandal of alleged bribes in ANDIS.

"A government that detests the Football Carnival. Luckily they don't even make it to 2030, sorry not even to 2027... Anyway," Toviggino concluded his discharge on networks, who on more than one occasion has used the platforms to express his repudiation of the presidential figure and the ruling party.

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