World governing football body, FIFA has abandoned plans to expand the 2022 World Cup to 48 teams, concluding that it could not host the larger tournament in Qatar or come up with a solution to share the event with gulf emirate’s neighbors.
The expansion proposal, pressed by FIFA’s president,
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