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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

Conifa 2018 - fixing football (just not like that)

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

Sports, Soccer,, Premier League, Champions League, World Cup

4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It's the eve of the biggest international football tournament you've never heard of. Iain Macintosh is your guide as we tell you everything you need to know about the 2018 Conifa World Football Cup - the participants from places like Tibet, Cascadia and Matabeleland; the rule changes; and why Yorkshire may be the team to watch in the future


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0:00.0

And you thought there was only one international tournament that England won't win this summer?

0:11.9

Well, you thought wrong, because London is hosting a World Football Cup,

0:16.8

the Paddy Power Knieffa World Football Cup Cup hosting teams like Matabela Land,

0:21.8

Punjab and the United Koreans in Japan.

0:25.3

This is a competition unlike anything you've ever seen before

0:28.9

and it's here in London to fix football.

0:32.1

Just not in that way.

0:33.6

Stay tuned to this special edition of the Totally Football Show

0:36.6

to find out more.

0:42.1

Hello, I'm Ian McIntosh, and I'm here to guide you through this footballing appetizer,

0:47.6

a pre-tournament tournament before we all sink into the sofa for a month.

0:51.5

And alongside me, to explain all, is Paul Watson from Keneifer and

0:55.8

Lee Price from Paddy Power. So the Keneifer World Football Cup. Paul, can you explain to us

1:03.5

what is a Kniefer and is it a kind of tree? I can explain that and no it is not.

1:09.7

Kenefer is the Confederation of Independent Football Associations. So it's a very catchy name. Ford is effectively the non-F FIFA FIFA. It represents nation, states and peoples who aren't accepted under FIFA's regulations. So what kind of nations are we talking about? In there, we've got sovereign nations, so, you know, UN-recognised nations like Tuvalu

1:28.8

who are coming to London, semi-recognised states like Abkhazia and maybe Tibet would be one of the better-known of those.

1:35.5

But then we also have sort of linguistic identities and ethnicities.

1:40.1

So for us, it's sort of a wider view on identity, slightly more flexible model than FIFA's.

1:46.1

Why has it set up?

1:47.3

It was basically set up because it turns out quite a lot of teams can't fit into FIFA's framework,

1:53.5

which people don't necessarily realise.

1:55.5

You know, FIFA might cover basically more teams than there are UN nations,

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