Bayern Munich's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has welcomed plans to revamp the Club World Cup, two days after the idea was rejected by Uefa and the European Club Association (ECA), to which Bayern belongs. 'The current Club World Cup in December is a nonsense,' Rummenigge who is...
Bayern Munich's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has welcomed plans to revamp the Club World Cup, two days after the idea was rejected by Uefa and the European Club Association , to which Bayern belongs.
"The current Club World Cup in December is a nonsense," Rummenigge who is both Bayern chairman and honorary chair of the ECA, told Sunday's edition of Frankfurt-based newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.Last Friday, however, the ECA threatened to boycott plans to expand the annual Club World Cup to 24 teams in 2021, a project led by Fifa president Gianni Infantino. Rummenigge criticised the Swiss over his handling of the situation.
"I think that Gianni Infantino was wrong not to agree beforehand with the ECA and with Andrea Agnelli," answered Rummenigge. "This led to this public defensive position, I regret it and I do not appreciate that between Fifa, Uefa and ECA, there is not a basis for positive discussion."
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