Jamie Carragher refused to do one thing FIFA asked him to do after being left concerned during a meeting

Jamie Carragher was not willing to do what FIFA wanted him to do.

The former Liverpool star gave a fascinating insight into how the governing body operates.

Jamie Carragher wouldn’t support a FIFA World Cup every two years

After a Zoom meeting left him feeling uneasy, Jamie Carragher refused to do FIFA’s bidding.

In an episode of Football Ramble, he explained: “I had a little chat with Arsene Wenger, and he was getting involved with FIFA at the time. It was all around this World Cup being every two years. He said, ‘I’d like you to come on this other call with ex-players, and we are going to talk about the ideas going forward’. I’m like, ‘Brilliant, amazing, let’s see who’s on it’. So, we get on this Zoom, and it wasn’t just English players; Javier Mascherano was on there—there were players from all around the world.

“They were talking about the pros of having a World Cup every two years. I’m just listening, asking questions; I don’t like the idea. We finish this Zoom, and I haven’t said I don’t like it; it shouldn’t happen. I’m just chatting with these ex-players, and the guy who was organising the Zoom then texted me to say, ‘Can you put this out’, like supporting it. I was like, ‘No, no, no’. Just because I came on the Zoom, I don’t agree with it, I don’t want it, I think it’s rubbish. It was almost this feeling of ‘Once you’re in here with us and you’re on this Zoom, we’re all these ex-players, and we’re in’. So, that was my insight into it with Wenger and Gianni Infantino above him, was that: ‘Get all these ex-players in, this makes us look okay’. The ex-players, half of them don’t care, and they’re getting a little jolly. From that, I was like, ‘I’m not having this at all’.”

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