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		</div><p>FIFA president Gianni Infantino has indicated Donald Trump&#8217;s controversial travel ban could prevent the United States from hosting the World Cup.</p>
<p>The United States is favourite to win the right to host the 2026 World Cup, either on its own or in a cross-border bid with either, or both, Mexico and Canada.</p>
<p>But President Trump on Monday signed a new executive order banning immigration from six Muslim-majority countries, which could have implications for the nation&#8217;s ability to host football&#8217;s biggest tournament &#8211; and the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games which Los Angeles is bidding to stage.</p>
<p>Infantino said in London on Thursday: <i>&#8220;When it comes to FIFA competitions, any team, including the supporters and officials of that team, who qualify for a World Cup need to have access to the country, otherwise there is no World Cup. That is obvious.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The competition will be expanded from 32 to 48 teams in 2026.</p>
<p>Of the countries affected by the executive order, Iran has the highest-ranked team in the FIFA rankings at 33rd and they have qualified for four World Cups. Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen are the other countries on the list.</p>
<p>FIFA is finalising the requirements for bidding for the 2026 tournament, which in 2018 will be hosted in Russia and in 2022 in Qatar.</p>
<figure id="attachment_108880" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-108880" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/GianniInfantinoFeb2016_large.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/GianniInfantinoFeb2016_large-300x163.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="163" class="size-medium wp-image-108880" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-108880" class="wp-caption-text">FIFA president Gianni Infantino</figcaption></figure>
<p>Infantino added: <i>&#8220;Mr Trump is the president of the United States of America and as such of course (I have) huge respect for what he does.</p>
<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s in charge, together with his government, to take decisions that are best for his country. That&#8217;s why he has been elected.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the world there are many countries who have bans, travel bans, visa requirements and so on and so forth.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are now in the process of defining the bid requirements.</p>
<p>&#8220;The requirements will be clear. And then each country can make up their decision, whether they want to bid or not based on the requirements.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s general sporting criteria.&#8221;</i></p>
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