Now Sepp Blatter Wants to Do Away With World Cup Playoffs
The two-legged home and away playoffs to qualify for the
World Cup will be coming up on November 15th and 19th, but FIFA dictator Sepp
Blatter, after all these years, has now decided that he doesn’t like the playoff
system. Blatter wants to do away with the playoffs because he says it’s “too
hard” on the losing teams. Well, losing and being disappointed is a part of sports
and life, but Blatter’s not happy with it anymore.
He said he realises that there’s a lot of drama produced in
the playoff system and it makes for great TV, but that’s it. "I think this
is good for television, this is good for the spectacle of football but I think
we should try to find a solution where at the end of the qualification, you are
in or out, and not this playoff. This playoff...it gives more intensive
action, but for those teams who are knocked out it is a hard way to go."
If he’s not happy with the system, then I wonder why FIFA
introduced it in the first place, why Blatter’s suddenly against it and why
hasn’t an alternative been introduced over the years? Perhaps he doesn’t like the
playoffs anymore because France are in them against Ukraine this year. Who
knows? But if a better qualifying system is created in the near future, then this
might be the last time we see the World Cup playoff system used.
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