UEFA plotting to host a breakaway World Cup in effort to get rid of Sepp Blatter

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A European Championship every two years with invites to other big football countries outside Europe is one of the proposals UEFA are putting forward in the fight against FIFA corruption.

The initiative would see all the top-ranked teams in world football take part in a competition that would not be under the jurisdiction of Sepp Blatter's administration.

The radical plan was proposed by Denmark's UEFA ExCo member Allan Hansen — one of the powerbrokers keen on UEFA breaking away from FIFA — at a meeting of Europe's 54 territories and ahead of 79-year-old Blatter's re-election for a fifth term as president last Friday.

Since the World Cup was first played for in 1930, the winner has always come from Europe or Latin America, whose football hotbeds of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Colombia might all take up a UEFA invite.

Hansen believes his plan would be attractive enough to take significant sponsorship and broadcasting rights — FIFA's two important revenue streams — away from Zurich until FIFA reforms itself to the extent that UEFA feel they can take part in a global World Cup once again.

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