Lionel Messi might grace the new-look Membership World Cup amid hypothesis that Inter Miami are set to take one of many last few locations left up for grabs.
The USA will host the expanded event subsequent summer season, with 32 groups from world wide – together with Chelsea and Manchester Metropolis – set to play off to be topped world champions.
The assorted confederations world wide have every be allotted differing numbers of slots on the competitors, which have been handed out primarily based on completely different standards largely primarily based on efficiency in continental membership competitions just like the Champions League.
Inter Miami reportedly set to be confirmed for Membership World Cup… regardless of lack of clear standards
FIFA’s new Membership World Cup has come beneath staunch criticism
North and Central America and the Caribbean will likely be represented by the final 4 winners of the CONCACAF Champions Cup: that is Mexican sides Monterrey, Leon and Pachuca, in addition to MLS outfit Seattle Sounders.
Nevertheless, FIFA left one place open for an MLS staff to qualify as hosts…though neither organisation seems to have really confirmed how, precisely, that staff could be chosen.
Lionel Messi has been at Inter Miami since 2023 (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Some MLS followers have been left a bit miffed by that, conspiratorially theorising that leaving the qualification standards unspoken was a method of discovering a method to insert Inter Miami into the competitors by some means – and guarantee Messi could be on the event.
Give Me Sport now report that certainly, Inter Miami are ‘more likely to be confirmed because the host consultant’ after guaranteeing they may end the common MLS season high of the desk.
Inter Miami’s dramatic 3-2 victory over second-placed Columbus Crew means they now have an unassailable lead, incomes them the Supporters’ Defend for the 2024 season.
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If and when Inter Miami are confirmed, it would go away only one extra place to be set in stone, which will likely be taken by the winners of this 12 months’s Copa Libertadores (or Paraguayan facet Olimpia if River Plate win it, because the latter have already certified).
The complete checklist of certified groups thus far is as follows, with solely two non-Confederation title successful facet permitted per nation:
AFC: Al-Hilal (Saudi Arabia), Urawa Purple Diamonds (Japan), Al Ain (UAE), Ulsan HD (South Korea)
CAF: Al Ahly (Egypt), Wydad (Morocco), Eseperance de Tunis (Tunisia), Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa)
CONCACAF: Monterrey (Mexico), Seattle Sounders (USA), Leon (Mexico), Pachuca (Mexico)
CONMEBOL: Palmeiras (Brazil), Flamengo (Brazil), Fluminense (Brazil), River Plate, Boca Juniors
OFC: Auckland Metropolis
UEFA: Chelsea (England), Actual Madrid (Spain), Manchester Metropolis (England), Bayern Munich (Germany), PSG (France), Inter (Italy), Porto (Portugal), Benfica (Portugal), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Juventus (Italy), Atletico Madrid (Spain), Purple Bull Salzburg (Austria)
