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Plan for 48-team World Cup 'complete insanity' - BVB's Hans-Joachim Watzke

FIFA's council met on Thursday to discuss plans for an expanded World Cup, an initiative Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke has told Reuters is "complete insanity."

Earlier this month, FIFA President Gianni Infantino proposed a 48-team tournament that would see 16 teams eliminated after one knockout match.

The plan -- on which a final decision will be made in January -- would essentially add a play-in round three days before the current 32-team group stage.

From that point, the tournament would progress as it currently does.

But Watzke said Infantino's plan would pile pressure on overstretched players and added: "I am totally against it.