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By GRAHAM DUNBAR NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Randy Johnson
As if they weren't making enough money.
tooheysnew
Didn’t they try that already ? & wasn’t popular
Peter14
More money, richer officials, bigger bribes, and increased corruption. The fun never stops.
wallace
We don't need an expanded program. Money before the ball.
piskian
Infantino: "Today,I feel... my wallet bulging."
Dr.Cajetan Coelho
The road to reaching the final 48 in the Americas is a long one. Minimum 3 games for every team that qualifies for the mega show on the Planet is sound thinking. FIFA 2026 World Cup - Here we come.
ClippetyClop
Although I still think the whole idea is ridiculous, I think that this plan is better than the original one where 1/3 of the teams would have only played 1 match. That would have been rubbish for the players and fans
7 weeks is a long time though. Fans are going to need deep pockets if their team goes deep, especially as they could well be zig-zagging across three enormous countries. And pretty much as soon as the final finishes the club season in Europe will be starting.
That said, I'm looking forward to it in a way. It's going to be enormous, immersive and very expensive.
lostrune2
After all these years, that's still the record with fewer teams and games
They can handle it
As I mentioned before how they can make a lot more money in America. As the NFL realized a long time ago when building their new mega-stadiums, not only is there a high capacity of seats, but also a lot of the stadium money comes from the expensive luxury suites that each costs in the tens of thousands of dollars per game (for the Super Bowl, that can rise to half a million per suite). That's why high-revenue NFL stadiums now have so many luxury suites