Fifa President, Sepp Blatter Calls For Increase In Africa’s World Cup Slots

* FIFA President Sepp Blatter says Africa should get
more spots at the World Cup, giving teams from
the continent more chances to win the
tournament.
For the 2014 World Cup, 53 European nations
have been competing for 13 spots at the
tournament. But the 54-nation Confederation of
African Football will have five teams in Brazil, and
Blatter says the continent is “woefully under-
represented at the World Cup.”
Blatter says that “as long as this remains the
case, African sides may never win an
intercontinental trophy, regardless of progress on
the playing side. This flawed state of affairs must
be rectified.”
Writing in FIFA’s new weekly magazine, Blatter
repeated a call for the number of guaranteed
World Cup berths for Asian teams to be increased
from four.