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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Sport
Malik Ouzia

Fifa president Gianni Infantino says biennial World Cup will make Africans less likely to cross Mediterranean

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has bizarrely claimed that modifications to football’s calendar will make African migrants less likely to embark upon dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossings in search of a better life in Europe.

The head of football’s world governing body was speaking at the Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, discussing proposed reforms to the global football calendar, which include the potential of World Cups being held every two years.

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