if you were the president of fifa what changes would you make to the world cup to improve it?

Answer 1

The DISAPPOINMENT is apparent everywhere under the sun and the reason is obvious.

As a Sepp Blatter, I would scrap KNOCKOUT system altogether and introduce LEAGUE system. In the first round 32 teams in 8 groups will play 6 games each. In the final round the eight group champions will be there in the fray. Thus, we will see more matches among the best eight and finally we will have the TRUE champion. Time will be a constraint, but I can manage it (100 matches instead of 64). What do you think that we can thus do away with infamous LUCK FACTOR.

Answer 2

Socrates, the great Brazilian midfielder along with Gerson and Falcao, stated that because soccer athletes have since the 1990s become bulkier, muscular, faster, taller, soccer has become too physical, easier to implement tactically (leading soccer to be tactically dominated as it is today), and making it easier for weak teams to get results against superior teams. The last 4 world cups have shown that. He proposed taking a player off the squad and lie up 10 players instead of 11. That way, creative and offensive players will have space and maneouverability to dominate the game and forwards will play the natural role that should belong to them.

I would implement Socrates's idea (which Blatter is considering seriously himself) as well as he following:

1 - Get rid of the offside. Why punish the offensive player for doing what he is supposed to do, and reward the defense for being careless? One is a poacher if the defense lets him be one, and no defender will ever allow a forward to be a poacher.

2. - Raise the height of the goal posts. Man has gotten taller and the original height and length of the goal posts has to change (made for the average height of man at that time) to adapt to the height of athletes today. All these 6'4 goalies defending goal posts designed for 5'8-6'0 goalies. Back to the acrobatics !

3 - Get clubs to reduce their teams and playing time. It is affecting the performance of teams and players on national teams.

4 - Have an extra central referee, one for each half of the field. That way, we can see fouls clearly, and assess hand balls clearly, and more importantly asses whether one is diving like a sissy or was actually taken down. It's the only solution for a chronic problem.

Answer 3

* I would eliminate that frickin offside rule
* I would give African and Asian countries more qualification slots
* I would change the qualification format in South America, and divide it into two groups rather than that stupid round robin, and I would have Argentina and Brazil play in one group for a World Cup or two, until the weaker South American teams gain more world cup experience!
* I would reinstate the Golden Goal in OT
* Once a player is "injured" he cannot return. Out of the game. No excuses! (let's see how many injuries are faked with that rule)
*I would put the linesmen on an elevated seating position (like in tennis); this ensures he can see what's going on from the top and catch sneaky tactics like diving.
* On diving: red card! and a two game ban!
* Instead of a penalty kick, the penalty would be to give the team 5 minutes with no goalie

Answer 4

The very first thing that I would do is lower the prices of the tickets so that the families of the players and other people from poorer countries would actually have a change at getting to see it live.

Answer 5

no cheaters ( but HOW would I prevent that??),include instant replay cameras, honest referees( how on EARTH would I do that??) eliminate penalty shoot-outs, implement as much extra-time as needed ( from henceforth referred to as "infinity time"), eliminate boring, sleepy television commentators, instill at least 1 more ref in the field, activate "anti-actors" patrol,namely, a 90 lb. Rottweiler dog in every corner of the field;at the referee's command, the "actors" would be chased (or "escorted", if you prefer) from the premises, and instill original expressions of celebration after goals--not recycled, rehashed, and imitated....

Answer 6

not give any tickets to any corporate sponsors and give tham all to fans of the teams involved, make sure referees dont turn it into a non-contact sport like the italians, spanish, portugese, south americans and to a lesser extent french would like it to be, make sure that things like rooneys stomp or zidanes headbutt and players pushing each over dont end up n a red card

Answer 7

If, after the 80th minute, it's still a scoreless draw ... start having naked women run across the field.

Of course, that means that any player who scores a goal in the 79th minute would be beaten to death by furious fans... from his own country no less.

Answer 8

add an extra ref to each match...so there would be one ref on each half of the field...that way the refs dont do as much running and have a better chance of catching foul play.

Answer 9

More Buttheads, have you seen the attention of this incident around all the world?
Good for business.

Answer 10

have better referees in every game and train them very well... also tell them to give more cards to divers and cheaters so it sets an example to the other players who dive ( which is pretty much everyone) and so they will stop doing it