Former Kiev head coach Mircea Lucescu is unhappy with the current number of participants (24) in the final part of the European Championship.
Mircea Lucescu. Photo - Y.Yuriev"There are very many teams that reached the final stage of Euro 2024. When I already became a coach, there were only 8 teams at the European Championships. And now there are as many as 24! And at the World Cup there are 32 teams, and soon this number will become 48.
As a result, very small countries can end up at the European Championships as well as at the World Cup. For example, Kazakhstan still has a chance to qualify for Euro 2024 (through the play-offs on the way to the Nations League - ed.). If that happens, it would be something completely abnormal. It is simply unbelievable that UEFA allows something like this to happen," Gazeta Sporturilor quoted Lucescu as saying.
