‘Eliminate it!’ – La Liga President reveals plan to destroy Club World Cup

La Liga president Javier Tebas has vowed to “eliminate” the ongoing Club World Cup tournament before its next edition in 2029.

Organized by FIFA, the ongoing Club World Cup tournament has continued to receive mixed reactions from fans, players and football stakeholders.

FIFA revamped the Club World Cup with a new format, which sees 32 teams from all confederations contesting in the group stages followed by knockout stages, much like the World Cup.

Originally, the Club World Cup would be held right before the end of the year or right after the turn of the year, with just the winners of the premier continental competitions organised by each of the six confederations participating in the tournament.

With football fans still in mixed zone on the essence of the competition, La Liga president Tebas has join the list of top personalities in the football world to share their opinion.

Javier Tebas, La Liga president is not a fan of the ongoing Club World Cup. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images For Sportel)

Tebas is not at all on board with the tournament, revealing that he will be working towards “eliminating” the tournament as the revamped version is a major threat to the “sustainability of football.”

Speaking at a football industry event, Tebas was asked how FIFA can revise the current Club World Cup. Tebas responded: “By eliminating it. My goal is to ensure there are no more Club World Cups, that’s very clear to me.”

He was then asked whether there was a way to make the tournament more compatible with the rest of the calendar. Tebas explained: “There are no dates. There’s no need for yet another competition that moves money to a sector of clubs and players and comes from somewhere. There’s no more money here; we have to maintain the ecosystem and eliminate it. Keep it as it was before, which was a weekend. There’s no way, neither in terms of dates, nor economics, nor maintaining the sustainability of football.”

The new Club World Cup is now set to take place every four years and various concerns have been raised in regards to players welfare.

Paris Saint-Germain boss Luis Enrique slammed the scheduling of the games following his side’s 4-0 hammering of Atletico Madrid.