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13 World Cup Nations Hit Back at UEFA President's ‘Uninteresting’ Claim

A 13-nation statement from Cape Verde, Curaçao, Uzbekistan, Congo, Haiti and eight African teams rejected Aleksander Čeferin’s claim that the expanded World Cup creates “uninteresting” games. “Every team qualified on merit,” they said. “Every match matters.” The group called qualification a generational dream and argued football’s strength comes from universality, not select nations deciding whose matches matter globally.