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UEFA and the European Club Association, which includes Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United, Chelsea and Bayern Munich prepare for battle over FIFA's plans for a World Cup every two years

UEFA is enlisting the support of Europe's biggest clubs to oppose FIFA's proposal for a biennial World Cup.

The UEFA president, Aleksander Ceferin, addressed more than 160 of the most powerful clubs at a meeting of the European Club Association in Geneva today.

The audience included the nine European Super League rebels, who have been allowed to re-join the organisation after their dysfunctional insurrection earlier this year, as well as those superpowers, like Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich, who refused to participate in the ill-fated project..

At the meeting, the first for Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Arsenal, since the Super League initiative, Ceferin laid out his concerns over the World Cup being held every two years.