{"id":31600,"date":"2017-01-06T11:36:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T11:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31600"},"modified":"2017-01-06T11:36:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T11:36:57","slug":"germany-rejects-increase-in-world-cup-participating-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31600","title":{"rendered":"Germany rejects increase in World Cup participating teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-31599\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ReinhardGrindel1.jpg\" alt=\"ReinhardGrindel1\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"520\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ReinhardGrindel1.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ReinhardGrindel1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ReinhardGrindel1-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Berlin: German Football Association President Reinhard Grindel has stressed the necessity of maintaining the number of World Cup participants at 32, instead of increasing it to 48.<\/p>\n<p>He voiced his views responding to suggestions made by world governing body FIFA President Gianni Infantino to increase the number of participating nations to 48.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview published at the DFB website on Thursday, Grindel said: &#8220;The member associations received the proposals just before Christmas. I think we need a prolonged period of time to discuss them, as individual associations, confederations and then as a whole. A decision shouldn&#8217;t be rushed through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that FIFA will take any decision in this regard to avoid a conflict of interests.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s football chief questioned Infantino&#8217;s transparency, and suggested that the proposals, which include 40 and 48 nations, have significant deficiencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-31599\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ReinhardGrindel1.jpg\" alt=\"ReinhardGrindel1\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"520\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ReinhardGrindel1.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ReinhardGrindel1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ReinhardGrindel1-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Berlin: German Football Association President Reinhard Grindel has stressed the necessity of maintaining the number of World Cup participants at 32, instead of increasing it to 48.<\/p>\n<p>He voiced his views responding to suggestions made by world governing body FIFA President Gianni Infantino to increase the number of participating nations to 48.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12975,20244,466,20245],"class_list":["post-31600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news","tag-football-news","tag-german-football-association","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-reinhard-grindel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Germany rejects increase in World Cup participating teams - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31600\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Germany rejects increase in World Cup participating teams - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Berlin: German Football Association President Reinhard Grindel has stressed the necessity of maintaining the number of World Cup participants at 32, instead of increasing it to 48. 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