The Oceanians formally communicate that they renounce their intention. The possible election of Asians in any case opens a new debate.
Saudi Arabia is about to take everything. It no longer only brings together a good number of the best footballers in the world. Now, it also stands alone in the effort to organize the 2034 World Cup. The Arab country finds itself without competition: Australia has officially announced that it is giving up organizing the event. It communicates it through its formal channels.
Even if the designation has not yet been made, everything indicates that the headquarters will be assigned to the Arabs: They were the only ones to have formally presented their intention and the deadline set by FIFA to submit their application expires today. . The invitation was closed: due to the rotation system, Only countries in Asia and Oceania could qualify to host the biggest football event. .
The Australian “no” and the first doubt
“We studied the possibility of submitting a bid to host the FIFA World Cup and, after considering all factors, concluded not to do so for the 2034 competition. », communicates the Australian federation to express its position. At the same time, it expresses its intention to continue hosting high-level events. The last time they hosted a Women’s World Cup was with New Zealand.
The Arab application is already faced with the first question: the date on which the competition can take place. As in Qatar, The high temperatures recorded in summer would force the event to be moved to the last months of the year, to coincide with the local winter. . However, this situation would once again disrupt the world football calendar.
Lots of dollars
What is clear is that Saudi Arabia is up to the challenge. At least he doesn’t miss this money. He demonstrated this with the emergence of his league as an attraction for the main figures of world football. . Suffice it to say, stars like Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Neymar have chosen to leave Europe in exchange for multi-million dollar contracts. that the country offers them, whose economic resources come mainly from oil exploitation. The other target they had, Lionel Messi, opted for MLS.
Football is indeed one of the activities to which millions of public funds have been allocated. In principle, their goal was to organize the 2030 World Cup. However, in June they abandoned this idea, which allowed FIFA to assign it a special distribution: the organization will go to Spain, Portugal and Morocco, but a symbolic date in South America. Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay were the favorites, in a Solomonic solution which however had a loser: Chile.
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“Having studied in detail the real framework of possibilities, Saudi Arabia concluded that it was impossible to win over the Spain-Portugal-Morocco candidacy. after realizing the work they have already done and the advantage they have in all aspects after years of serious and silent work. The RFEF’s discreet diplomatic strategy designed by Luis Rubiales once again bears fruit and the candidacy is once again strengthened “, they explained on occasion.
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