Co-hosting it with Morocco!
Really! Morocco, Spain and Portugal are co-hosting it, and because of it being the centenary, the first 3 matches are being played in South America: in Uruguay,
Argentina and Paraguay respectively (I think I've remembered the order correctly).
After all the times Morocco have bidded to host it and been turned down, it's probably good that they've finally got a chance.
They're restricting the bidding for 2034 to Asia and Oceania, because of where it's being played in 2026 and 2030. Which doesn't make sense,
when it hasn't been played in South America since 2014 (and before that, not since 1978). And approximately a third of the games being played in Morocco in
2030 hardly seems a good reason to exclude Africa, where it hasn't been played since 2010 (and never before that) either.
There is little to celebrate about any of this. It's all a ploy to give 2034 to Saudi-Arabia by circumventing FIFA's own World Cup hosting
rules.
Co-hosting it with Morocco!
Really! Morocco, Spain and Portugal are co-hosting it, and because of it being the centenary, the first 3 matches are being played in South America: in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay respectively (I think I've remembered
the order correctly).
They're restricting the bidding for 2034 to Asia and Oceania,
because of where it's being played in 2026 and 2030.
There is little to celebrate about any of this. It's all a ploy to give
2034 to Saudi-Arabia by circumventing FIFA's own World Cup hosting
rules.
I don't like seeing this being done to the centennial World Cup (or to
any other, really), but that's par for the course with Fifa
unfortunately.
They're restricting the bidding for 2034 to Asia and Oceania, because
Namely yes, but it's going to be in Saudi Arabia. This is the end goal of this
whole thing.
On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 1:08:26 PM UTC-4, Lléo wrote:
Namely yes, but it's going to be in Saudi Arabia. This is the end
goal of this whole thing.
FIFA-bashing is always popular,
On Friday, October 6, 2023 at 1:08:26 PM UTC-4, Lléo wrote:
Namely yes, but it's going to be in Saudi Arabia. This is the end goal of this
whole thing.
FIFA-bashing is always popular, but for the very large majority of football fans who anyway are going to only watch the WC on TV, does it really make any
difference where the WC is played? (Other than the time zone where matches are played)
Co-hosting it with Morocco!
Really! Morocco, Spain and Portugal are co-hosting it
Sysop: | Keyop |
---|---|
Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
Users: | 300 |
Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
Uptime: | 54:29:08 |
Calls: | 6,712 |
Files: | 12,243 |
Messages: | 5,355,328 |