Video: Arsene Wenger uses the example of women’s football to justify a biennial World Cup

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Former Arsenal manager and now FIFA’s Chief of Global Football Development, Arsene Wenger, has always talked a good game, as well as being a master strategist and student of it.

The urbane Frenchman can certainly back up his ideas with reasoned argument, though one of his most controversial suggestions on how to develop the game is for the advent of a biennial World Cup.

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Asked by Rio Ferdinand why he thought it’s an idea that should be supported because the tournament would lose prestige, he gave the perfect response.

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