Morocco, Portugal and Spain will organize the 2030 World Cup, a unique tournament in which Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay will host the opening matches to celebrate the competition’s centenary, the competition said on Wednesday. FIFA.
This is the first time that the World Cup, to which the FIFA described as “global”, will be held on three continents and six countries.
“The FIFA Council unanimously agreed that the sole bid will be the combined bid of Morocco, Portugal and Spain, which will host the event in 2030 and will automatically qualify based on the existing allocation of places.“FIFA said in a statement.
“Taking into account the historical context of the first FIFA World Cup (…) the FIFA Council also unanimously agreed to organize a unique centenary celebration ceremony in the country’s capital, Montevideo (…) as well as three World Cup matches in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay respectively”.
In an unusual fact and far from traditional forms, the celebration of the matches in South America was announced by the president of Conmebol, Alejandro Domínguez, and the heads of the football associations of the nations involved, before FIFA reported it. .
“We believed in Big. The 2030 Centennial World Cup begins where it all began. Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay will host the opening matches of the #MundialCentenario!”Domínguez wrote on the social network X.
“A 100-year World Cup could not, should not, not remember and not rise to the occasion, and this is how the plenary session of the FIFA Council understood it.Domínguez later said in a press conference.
“Unite three continents to celebrate the Centennial of the most beautiful sport festival in the world. Football unites six countries, a historical fact and we are tremendously happy”added Domínguez.
The head of the Paraguayan Football Association, Robert Harrison, said that the teams of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay They are automatically qualified for the World Cup, without clarifying what will happen with the South American qualifiers.
The president of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, celebrated that the opening match of the tournament will be at the Centenario stadium.
“100 years later, Uruguay and our Centennial will be the center of the world’s attention to experience the inauguration of the #MundialCentenario 2030. This recognition does justice to those pioneers who built the history of football!”, he also noted in X.
The 2022 World Cup was held in Qatar and was won by the Argentine team.
Source: Gestion
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