At the FIFA meeting, the Confederations Cup was cancelled and a brand-new reorganization activity was introduced instead. This is the World Club Cup. According to infantino's proposal, the reformed World Club Cup will be expanded from 7 teams to 24 teams. The first World Club Cup is held every four years. As a substitute for Confederations Cup, the first tournament was held from June 20265438 to July 4, 2002/KLOC-0. This also means that the Confederations Cup held in Russia on 20 17 will be the swan song of this event.
The cancellation of the Confederations Cup itself can be seen as a measure taken by FIFA to reduce the burden on players, reduce the tasks of the national team and increase the rest time every year. However, it is really unreasonable for many teams to reorganize the World Club Cup after canceling the Confederations Cup. For the strong European teams, the World Club Cup, which originally only needed to play two games, became a round-robin knockout. Increasing this kind of chicken rib incident for no reason will naturally affect players.
Federation activity development
Since the host country of the Confederations Cup is defined as the country that will host the World Cup next year, the Confederations Cup is also regarded as the outpost of the World Cup, and the organizers and FIFA can also examine the various conditions of the host country in terms of venue, transportation and coordination through exhibitions. For teams in Asia, Africa and Oceania, the Confederations Cup is an excellent platform to compete with the strong.
1997 and 200 1, Australia and Japan once reached the final of the project, but unfortunately lost to Brazil and France, ranking second.