Philippe Auclair

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2,083 appearances 17 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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Football Weekly · Spain outclass and outpass France; England to take on Argentina: World Cup Daily · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

And that in some way would be better than having this strange bastardized system in which you have the best third-placed teams, which, to be honest, if you look at what they did in this tournament, well, they did nothing. matched

So that would be the only possible bonus, I could imagine, for the 64-team World Cup. matched

It would be quite interesting. matched

I said, how many Conmebol South American teams would qualify? matched

Probably all 10 of them would qualify. matched

So that's great. matched

So we won't have any qualifiers then. matched

Well, that's a bit strange, but there you go. matched

Other than that, it's crazy. matched

It's just Jenny being Jenny. matched

The idea has been mooted before, particularly for the 2030 World Cup, which is the centenary World Cup. matched

And it was put forward by Conmebol, the South American Confederation, and by its president, Mr. Dominguez. matched

Quite an interesting character. matched

Well, interesting with loads of brackets. matched

And the idea being that we should have as many teams as possible in that World Cup. matched

And also because it's between three continents, South America, Africa with Morocco and Europe, we should open it to more teams. matched

The extraordinary thing is that when Infantino is talking about every team should have a chance to participate in the World Cup, well, every team has a chance to participate in the World Cup already. matched

It's called qualifying. matched

And the other thing is if you take, for example, what happened to Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, whichever way you want to call them, matched

They would have qualified even with a 32-team tournament. matched

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