Fifa’s failure to agree World Cup TV deals in China and India a headache for Infantino

With the tournament a month away, there are still no agreements done with the two Asian giants to ensure fans there can watch all 104 games When Fifa expanded the World Cup from 32 to 48 teams, it was in the hope that countries such as India and China, with their 2.7 billion residents, would qualify rather than countries such as Cape Verde and Curaçao, whose combined population of about 700,000 barely equals a district of a megacity such as Mumbai or Shanghai. What the governing body did not ...

By John Duerden