48? Damn. What’s the point of qualifiers then? There’ll be plenty of crap games that will be non-competitive, extra opportunity for some players to get injured. Scoring titles will be inflated and will lose meaning.

Does 48 teams mean 12 groups of 4? So 24 teams advance to knock out stages, makes no sense as you can have semifinals between 6 teams so they’ll have to add extra 8 teams to knockout stages that were third in their groups with best results. What’s would be the point of groups then? Money grab at this stage. We will watch games between Panama and Cambodia (no offence to both) or similar World Cup Finals “worthy” players.