Biennial World Cups would change sport as we know it
A World Cup every two years, as Gianni Infantino and his acolytes want, will revolutionise not only the football calendar but the entire sporting universe.
FIFA Congress could decide as early as next spring.
Every major and minor sport currently builds its schedule around the traditional four-year foundation provided by the interlocking World Cup and summer Olympic Games. All of that, with the uncertain effect on television revenues, has been thrown up into the air.
The concept of a World Cup every two years is not new. Back in January 1999 Sepp Blatter, then all-powerful as FIFA president, delivered the idea on the world game in a New Year message. He said: “The existing four-yearly tournament is out of time. It
