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I think FIFA is intentionally doing it with 48 teams instead of 32 in order to promote football even more,even in countries which had never a possibility to be in such a huge event like the World Cup and I agree with this policy they are taking for this upcoming World Cup.
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If countries that are less interested in football get a chance to participate in this tournament, interest in football will increase in those countries. I think this is a very correct point of view. I support this approach. In addition, the world cup organization held in Qatar showed us the success of the Asian and African teams. I look forward to seeing more teams from these continents. If the name of this organization is the World Cup, we should make it a real world game. If that happens, we will enjoy this tournament more.
There is a school of thought that believe that increasing the number of World Cup participants will reduce the quality of the competition. Some of them were kicking against this expansion and even supported reducing the number of participants. A close evaluation of people in this school pd thought shows that most of them are from developed nations with high quality football leagues. But they are not considering that these move by FIFA will increase football awareness and development which will.make more nations embrace the sports.