FIFA WORLD CUP will be on 3 different continents for the first time. #Draft
The 2030 men’s World Cup will be hosted by six countries in three different continents to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the first edition of the tournament, soccer’s world governing body FIFA announced on Wednesday.
Spain, Portugal and Morocco will co-host the tournament, while Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina will all stage an opening match each to mark 100 years since the first World Cup was staged. The 1930 tournament was hosted and won by Uruguay.
Alejandro Domínguez, president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), confirmed that Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay will host the opening matches of the Centennial World Cup to be played in 2030.
“We believed in Big. The 2030 Centenary World Cup begins where it all began. Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay will host the inaugural matches of the #Centennial World Cup,” wrote the president on his X Account
“In a divided world, FIFA and football are uniting,” said FIFA President Gianni Infantino. “The FIFA Council, representing the entire world of football, unanimously agreed to celebrate the centenary of the FIFA World Cup, whose first edition was played in Uruguay in 1930, in the most appropriate way.”
The six countries had initially joined forces regionally in separate bids for the hosting rights to the 100th anniversary World Cup, a globe-stopping, month long soccer festival that produces billions of dollars in revenue for FIFA every four years.
The offer from the South American nations had long been considered an outsider, however, to the three-nation bid from Spain, Portugal and Morocco, which was officially declared the sole bidder for 2030 on Wednesday. But under the new arrangement to recognize the tournament’s centenary, each nation will get to take a turn as a host, reported The New York Times.
The complexity and size of the World Cup has grown steadily in recent decades, with the next edition — in 2026 — expanded by 12 teams to 48 in total, making it the largest in history. That size, and FIFA’s exacting requirements for bidding countries and stadiums, mean that few nations are now capable of staging the event alone.
The 2030 championship will now start with an opening ceremony at the Estadio Centenario in Uruguay, the site of the 1930 final, and stadiums in Buenos Aires and Asunción, Paraguay.
The three nations and their opponents would have to travel to Spain, Portugal or Morocco to continue with the rest of the tournament.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/04/sport/fifa-2030-world-cup-hosts-announced-spt-intl/index.html
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/38564624/argentina-spain-six-countries-host-2030-world-cup
3:23 pm - 10-5-2023
This assignment is different from the first assignment, Diego.
What you have here is OK as background and context. And
you should include the attribution for sources in the text
(like you did in the first article).
But as I said in class, if you use this story you have to now
localize it, which means talking to people here. Talk to your
teammates, to Maxon. What do they think of these decisions.