World Cup 2018 to North America?

[jimmylibel]

Blatter raises doubts over England's 2018 World Cup bid

 

Fifa president's personal inclination is for rotation to continue to North America

 

Staff and agencies

Wednesday February 28, 2007

Guardian Unlimited

 

Harbinger of gloom, Sepp Blatter. Photograph: Michael Regan/Action Images

 

Sepp Blatter has warned there is no guarantee that the 2018 World Cup will be held in Europe - putting a question mark against hopes that England would host that tournament.

Blatter was meeting chancellor Gordon Brown and sports minister Richard Caborn today with a possible World Cup bid at the top of the agenda. But the Fifa president has raised the prospect of the 2018 tournament either being held in North America or Asia - and the USA, China and Australia have also indicated their intention to bid. Fifa's executive committee will decide in December on whether the World Cup should continue to rotate to different continents or if it should be open to all bidders.

 

"The executive committee must take a decision whether the rotation should include all the confederations in which case the 2018 World Cup should be in Concacaf [north and central America]," Blatter told a media briefing in London.

"They could also decide that the Americas should be considered as one and then rotation would go to Asia. It may also be that the majority of the Fifa executive committee, where you have eight European representatives [out of 24] can find the 13 votes needed [for the World Cup to return to Europe]."

 

Blatter said his personal inclination was for rotation to continue to North America, with the USA, Mexico and Canada all capable of hosting the tournament.

 

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[johngibo YPC]

What does Sepp Blatter care?

He'll be dead by then anyway

[jimmylibel]

What does Sepp Blatter care?

He'll be dead by then anyway

 

The 'presents' he gets will have been well spent by then though.

 

Wonder who'll be the New Zealand-esque fall guy this time round?

[The Hitman]

So America,South Africa,Korea and Japan all get a look in.

But England doesn't?

Hmmm....

 

Too much emphasis on the "development" of football methinks.

[McBain]

I can say with absolute certainty and not a shred of anti american feeling that USA 94 was the worst world cup i've ever seen. A total disaster

 

I dont believe England has a greater right than other to host it but in what will be 88 years we'll have had it just once. That needs putting right

[Extraordinary Swindle]

It'll go to Canada/Mexico. When it comes back to Europe I can see Russia being awarded it before England.

[Cobs]

we should take the game back off them, the ungrateful cn*ts.

[jimmylibel]

It's a bit ridiculous this rotation lark to be honest. There's no way that Europe should get that competition only once every 20 years.

 

Spain, England, Germany, France and Italy are all capable of holding that tournament and there's a number of other countries who could do it as part of a joint bid.

[Nebraska Red]

USA, USA, USA

 

we have the stadiums and we have the transport systems.

 

FIFA is looking at making billions from this tournament and there are more big stadiums over here.

 

I cannot see Canada getting it as they have very few decent stadiums capable of putting on a match.

[Archangel]

''Reclaim The Cup'' - i say

 

 

[wildcatlh]

USA 94 may have been poorly run...

 

...but it was (and still is, I believe) the most profitable World Cup ever for FIFA.

 

And since we know what their highest priority is... its pretty simple to see why they'd want another World Cup here.

[Gilps]

It seems slightly contradictory to give Europe half the teams at the tournament but rotate to the extent that that only get the tournment one time out of 3 or 4.

[floyd]

Give it back to Spain. Best World Cup EVER.

[Falconhoof]

Mexico was good too.

 

Brazil or Argentina should host one before the USof Ay.

 

Somewhere in Eastern Europe would be good.

[Gilps]

Mexico was good too.

 

Brazil or Argentina should host one before the USof Ay.

 

Somewhere in Eastern Europe would be good.

 

2014's definitely going to South America, isn't it? Brazil almost certain to get it if so, I would've thought. Hard to ague against it being their turn.

[Mono]

I can say with absolute certainty and not a shred of anti american feeling that USA 94 was the worst world cup i've ever seen. A total disaster

 

I dont believe England has a greater right than other to host it but in what will be 88 years we'll have had it just once. That needs putting right

 

 

 

If you're talking in footballing terms USA '94 was a fine World Cup. Italia '90 was one of the worst in living memory.

 

The worst aspect of the USA '94 was playing some games in unbearable heat that denied athletes the chance to play to their full potential but some of the football played was far better fare than Germany last year and France.

 

 

 

Euro 2000 is the quality of football benchmark for me that all major football tournaments will be measured against. I wasn't around for Mexico '70

[Nebraska Red]

anywhere you play the WC in North or Central America it will be hot.

 

games were played in the heat of the day to accomodate European TV.

 

i would like to see it played in South America with games spread between a couple of nations, if it is not going to be in the USA.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

we love soccerball over here....

 

I actually had a member of staff ask me if I like soccerball....

[San Diego Red]

What does Sepp Blatter care?

He'll be dead by then anyway

 

The old bag