ASSUMPTION.- The president of the CONMEBOLAlejandro Domínguez, asked the FIFA That he considers to raise the 2030 World Cup, “for the only time” and to be played on three continents as planned.
“We are proposing for the only time to carry out this centenary with 64 selections on three continents, simultaneously, so that all countries have the opportunity to live the experience of a World Cup and so that no one on this planet is outside this party,” said the manager in a message on the occasion of the 80 Conmebol Congress.
Dominguez’s idea is limited to the motion of developing a group of the World Cup completely in South America.
The Congress, which was developed in videoconference, was followed by the head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, who highlighted “the exceptional milestone” that will be the World Cup to celebrate the 100 years of organized football.
“That (the World Cup) is played (that year) everywhere is our party,” Domínguez emphasized.
Growth “unprecedented”
The head of Conmebol said that South American football “is stronger and more united than ever. The era of power in the hands of economic groups and leaders behind football was left behind,” he said.
With this phrase, Dominguez alluded to the recent past with several leaders of South American football prosecuted in the United States for acts of corruption, in the mega-causa that the world knew as “FIFA-Gate.”
“We have achieved unprecedented growth,” said the mandamás of the South American Football Confederation.
Growth exceeded 400% since Dominguez assumed in 2016, being “probably the largest in this century worldwide.”
Conmebol’s expansion “breaks the eyes where you look at it,” the leader said proudly, pointing out that global audiences and sponsors accompany South American football more than ever.
There are every time “more screens reproducing our goals throughout the planet.”
Fight racism
On acts of racism, discrimination and violence, the head of FIFA pondered the actions undertaken by Conmebol to combat it and Dominguez said it is a challenge, “product of a deteriorated society.”
At the end of March, Conmebol created a working group headed by the Brazilian exastro Ronaldo Nazário ‘the phenomenon’ to deal with racism, discrimination and violence in football.
The creation of the ‘Task Force’, which will be composed of other idols of football and several renowned jurists, will work to implement strategies aimed at eradicating racism in a South American football that in recent months has lived a string of cases.
Brazilian teams have suffered repeated acts of racism in regional competitions, such as when an amateur from Cerro Porteño imitated a monkey in the direction of several Palmeiras players who played the sub-20 liberators in Asunción.
Even the president of Conmebol was involved in a controversial days ago for releasing a phrase considered racist by Brazilians, including the president of Palmeiras, Leila Pereira.
