The pressure is growing on the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, with many countries withdrawing their support following the bungled World Cup sell-off. Marcela Mora y AraujoIt remains to be seen what the 11 Oceania Football Confederation member associations will do. The expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams finally gave Oceania an automatic World Cup spot – something that Fifa had promised in the past but never delivered. NAIt’s very important – barring some new organisation stepping in to run world football in a better way, Fifa is Concacaf’s best link to the traditional power centres of world football. Sepp Blatter, Havelange’s successor in 1998, also leveraged Africa’s support in a similar fashion to defeat the Uefa president Lennart Johansson.