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\u201cMy big thing is I don\u2019t quite get the integrity of the competition,\u201d Southgate said. \u201cYou would have to play one game… I\u2019d need to see it all laid out but my understanding is three matches played in South America, then those teams have to travel across the globe, change timezone again, and pick up the competition with home advantage in one part of the group and not another part. <\/p>\n

\u201cI know we had that a little bit with the last Euros, but that would seem quite disjointed and a different landscape for different teams in different groups. So yeah, what I\u2019ve seen it, I\u2019m not a fan.<\/p>\n

\u201cArgentina in Buenos Aires would not be great. Logically, you could play Argentina in Buenos Aires and have to travel back. There is a big difference between playing Argentina in Buenos Aires and playing them in Casablanca. So, that is a significant change to the competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy big thing is I don\u2019t quite get the integrity of the competition,\u201d Southgate said. \u201cYou would have to play one game… I\u2019d need to see it all laid out but my understanding is three matches played in South America, then those teams have to travel across the globe, change timezone again, and pick up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nGareth Southgate questions \u2018integrity\u2019 of 2030 World Cup format - Sports Life Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/gareth-southgate-questions-integrity-of-2030-world-cup-format\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gareth Southgate questions \u2018integrity\u2019 of 2030 World Cup format - 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