Danish Players in anguish after their teammate, Christian Eriksen, collapsed in their opening match of UEFA Euro 2020. Photo courtesy of Reuters.
FIFA has recently announced a proposal to transition the World Cup from every four years to every two years, starting in 2026. This proposal has sparked outrage in much of the world footballing community, all the way up to the executive level of the Union of European Football Associations, UEFA.
“We cannot decide to play in it … So good luck with a World Cup like that,” Aleksander Ceferin, president of the Union of European Football Association said in regards to the recent FIFA proposal.