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Tuesday briefing: Ceferin offers support for Iberian World Cup bid, but casts doubt on Euros format

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6 September 2022 - 3:30 AM

By James Corbett, senior correspondent

UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin has offered his unequivocal support for a Spain-Portugal World Cup bid for 2030, dashing unlikely hopes that Turkey and Greece could co-host the event with Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Speaking at the Football Talks summit in Lisbon, Čeferin also said that UEFA was also reassessing the format for the European Championships, and that he felt the current 24 team composition was “not ideal.”

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