More Music, More Teams… More FIFA Money Grabs?! What’s Coming for the 2026 and 2030 World Cups

If the initial reports of such a proposal are any indication of how some FIFA representatives felt about it, we might be ok. The New York Times reported that there was “stunned silence” by the participants, and three unnamed sources said: “FIFA was likely to be guided by financial and political benefits as much as sporting ones when it came to taking a decision on the matter." All of this, by the way, before we’ve even kicked off the first of the four World Cup tournaments happening before 2030.