Reports out of Mexico and South America on Saturday indicate that FIFA President Gianni Infantino wants to continue his drastic changes to the World Cup by altering the qualification process for two of FIFA’s confederations.
According to reports, Infantino has a proposal ready to merge CONCACAF and CONMEBOL’s World Cup qualifying formats into one big competition. The new format would consist of 46 countries playing for 14 World Cup spots.
This would be in conjunction with his earlier proposal of expanding the World Cup itself to a 40 or 48-team format from its current 32-team field.