Blatter criticizes the idea of a European Cup 2020 in 13 countries
President Sepp Blatter criticized the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) the idea of a European Cup 2020 in 13 countries because it would lose the tournament, "essence and spirit" as he put it.
Blatter said in a statement to the magazine "Kicker" German organizing the finals to be attributed to a single state "have their own identity and create the tournament state of joy."
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He said that Europe Cup 2020 "will not genuine European Championship, it should be called something else."
The FIFA president said that the idea of a major tournament in a number of countries is not new, but put the late former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi after South Africa for the honor of organizing the 2010 World Cup.
Blatter added, "Colonel Gaddafi said to me that he must stay in every match from 53 African countries. I told him that was impossible."
The statement comes Blatter contrary to what was said by President Michel Platini Union of European Football Associations, who revealed that he had received in December / December last of congratulations from the President of FIFA on the application of the idea of the distribution of European finals matches on 13 countries.
Platini stands behind the idea of celebrating the anniversary of 60 years of the start of the European Cup through the establishment of the continental tournament in several European cities, has raised such as the final version of 2012, which was held in Poland and Ukraine and Spain crowned her title at the expense of Italy.
The Executive Committee expressed in the European Union expressed support for the idea of Platini through their vote almost absolute majority for the benefit of the tournament in 2020 in different European countries.
And see a lot of fans to the tournament in several European countries will be more expensive for them because they are forced to move from one country to another to watch the matches.
But Platini stressed that the establishment of the tournament in several countries will ease pressure on the state or two in light of the difficult economic conditions that prevailed in the European continent.
He acknowledged that there is a lot of work that needs to be done to address the details of this form of regulation.
The cities will be selected in the spring of 2014, 6 years before the date of the tournament.
The next version will be played from the European Cup in 2016 in France, where he will raise the number of participating teams from 16 to 24, and start the playoffs in September / 2014 and ending in November / November 2015.
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