The hashtag was launched in September by Football Supporters Europe (FSE).
The main group of French fans is pointed out this Sunday that they were prevented from placing a banner during the France-Kazakhstan, on Saturday in the Parc des Princes, to show their opposition to a possible World Cup every two years as defended by FIFA.
“# No2YearWoldCup” (not to a World Cup every two years), was the motto written on that banner of the group ‘Irrésistibles français’ (IF), which was finally displayed outside the stadium at the end of the qualifying match for the World Cup-2022 Qatar won 8-0 by France.
“Gianni Infantino (FIFA president, present in Paris for the match) did not want to see her in the Parc des Princes,” said the IF and Twitter.
“There was nothing bad or insulting, we just wanted the voice of the fans to be expressed,” a spokesman for the group told AFP.
The security services of the venue took the banner during the match and returned it to the group of fans at the end of the match.
The hashtag #No2YearWoldCup It was launched in September by Football Supporters Europe (FSE), a network that brings together groups of national team fans, hostile to the establishment of a biennial World Cup, as opposed to the current periodicity every four years.
In France, Didier Deschamps showed his reservations regarding a reform of the World Cup, which would give “the feeling of trivializing it”. In contrast, the president of the French Football Federation (FFF), Noël Le Graët, declared at the beginning of October that he had “no opposition” in principle.
FIFA organizes a virtual world summit on December 20 on the issue, but without a vote. (D)
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