French Football Federation president Noel Le Graet says he is “not opposed” to the highly controversial idea of staging a World Cup every two years, after FIFA held an online summit to discuss the project.
“It would be a mistake not to look into this,” the veteran Le Graet, 79, told Friday’s edition of sports daily L’Equipe, a day after world football’s governing body held the summit with its 211 member federations in an attempt to rally support.
Le Graet said he was “very favourable” to the idea of staging biennial World Cups for women “as long as they are played in winter and not in summer when it would be too close to the men’s”.