Egyptian star Mohamed Aboutrika ball nonconformist welcomed the increased number of teams participating in the World Cup football.
Swiss Gianni Infantino The head of the International Federation of Football "FIFA" was held Monday morning at the headquarters of the Union Zurich meeting with the elite of the stars of world football "Legends of FIFA," including Aboutrika, to the great annual celebration hosted by the "Viva" to choose and honor-Star Game during the 2016.
Infantino and listened to the views of "Legends of FIFA," including live Argentine legend Maradona and Gabriel Batistuta citizenship and Spanish Michel Sgado and others about the proposal, which is currently being studied on increasing the number of participating teams in the World Cup from 32 to 48 teams starting from the year 2026 version.
In his speech Aboutrika, who was ambassador to the only Arab football in the meeting stressed that with the increased number of teams participating in the World Cup, confirming that it is a great new opportunity for the African continent, and increasing the number of teams the continent from 5 to 9 by the proposal would create new motives for each poor countries especially, Aboutrika said in his speech, "Football is not just a game .. is life and hope."
He Aboutrika: increase the number of teams a good idea worth the experience, will be a positive experience for both teams in the world, not just Africa, the continental qualifiers for the World Cup will become more important and more public enthusiasm for all countries will not be the preserve of a strong majority in every continent, years and teams participating in the World Cup familiar, since by virtue of a repeat occurrence, nor new.
He returned Aboutrika to talk about the importance of the application of this proposal for African football, stressing that will increase the size of concern for the environment infrastructure in the countries of the continent, and increase the size of the public interest, and therefore we will find masses crowded in all the stadiums, and the dream of the World Cup will be accessible to all teams with the increase in the number of seats .. He pointed out that many of the African teams, including Liberia, for example, the scene did not show the world Cup in the presence of myth George and none, even in Europe the same thing, it is incredible that the myth of English football, Ryan Giggs retired without participating in any Cup Scientist ?.
Played down the myth of the Egyptian soccer ambassador in a forum and celebration, "FIFA" of concern to some of the negative impact of increasing the number of teams, stressing that he will not be increasing the duration of the tournament, something that worried him coach teams of Europe in order to avoid stress, stressing that the team who will be crowned world champions will play the same number of matches, "7", which was fought by any team in light of the "32 system."
Was based Aboutrika in introducing important digital statistics and its implications, namely that if the adoption of the increase from 32 to 48 teams will be the World Cup representative for only 23% of the number of teams that will contest the playoffs in all continents and 211 elected .. It also pointed out that this percentage less than the percentages held by the continental tournaments, Fbtoulh African Nations Cup involving 30% of the teams in the continent, and the European Championship "Euro" involving 44% of the teams in the old continent, starring Asia Cup involving 52% of the number of teams in the continent, and Alkounkav involving 34%.
He called one Egyptian star Legends "Viva" at the end of his speech and offer his opinion marrow spherically countries such as Brazil, Germany, Spain and Argentina play their role in order to service and development of football and to achieve humanitarian and social goals