Several federations in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean have reacted harshly after statements attributed to UEFA President Aleksander Èeferin that expanding the World Cup to 48 teams would produce "completely uninteresting" matches, according to reports in the Slovenian press cited by the Associated Press. The reaction was not long in coming. The federations of Cape Verde, Congo, Curaçao, Haiti, Jordan and Uzbekistan joined African states such as Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Morocco,