Tariq Panja
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632 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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It has been 32 since that first World Cup that I went to in 98 in France.
And now we've added more teams, 48 teams.
It's arguably the easiest World Cup to qualify for as well because you have more teams.
However, unfortunately for them, we're not going to see Italy again.
We're going to have 72 group stage games.
So that's the start of the tournament.
The teams are divided into blocks of four, 12 of these.
And it's going to take a huge amount of time to eliminate 12 teams.
Four games a day for 24 straight days.
Is that too much?
I guess we're going to find out.
Well, you know, if you're an employer, I guess it's not what you want.
You're going to have a few people either being bleary-eyed in the morning or not showing up to work because of football.
Well, one of the reasons is pure football politics.
FIFA is a membership organization of 211 nations.
Every four years, they gather to elect or reelect the president.
And when he's able to give out more gifts, it's much easier to be reelected.
So here we are, Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president.
He's decided to expand it to 48 teams.
Yeah, of course, there's a glass half full way of looking at this as well.
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