World Cup 2030 Bid

Cardiffdaffs

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Uefa have endorsed Ukraine Spain and Portugal as their bid.


Have we seen the end of the one nation world cup? Will miss them. I mean a joint bid by Egypt, Greece and Saudi Arabia!! Pardon the vernacular but WTF. I trust that this bid will fail although where Fifa are concerned you wouldnt put it past them .
 
Fans shelling out loads of money to travel thousands of miles across different countries to attend the games. Fans seemingly slap bang at the bottom of the list of considerations, yet again.

I really don't like this trend of joint hosting as it feels like a cheat to get more countries to qualify automatically.
 
Or am I being too cynical.
Nope.

Must only be like two decent stadia in Ukraine to host international football, Shaktar's stadium and Dynamo Kiev?
Spain could quite easily host it on it's own with the calibre of stadiums already in the country. Adding Portugal kind of makes sense with it been a smaller country but right next door, Sporting, Porto and Benfica's stadia all top notch.
 
Uefa have endorsed Ukraine Spain and Portugal as their bid.


Have we seen the end of the one nation world cup? Will miss them. I mean a joint bid by Egypt, Greece and Saudi Arabia!! Pardon the vernacular but WTF. I trust that this bid will fail although where Fifa are concerned you wouldnt put it past them .
I think Saudi money may come into this bid at some point Cardiff. Bet the fifa execs are having wet dreams at the thought of it!
 
Nope.

Must only be like two decent stadia in Ukraine to host international football, Shaktar's stadium and Dynamo Kiev?
Spain could quite easily host it on it's own with the calibre of stadiums already in the country. Adding Portugal kind of makes sense with it been a smaller country but right next door, Sporting, Porto and Benfica's stadia all top notch.

They had 4 stadiums to share hosting of Euro 2012 with Poland. But one of the stadiums isn't much bigger than ours which would be on the small side for the World Cup. No idea what state they are all in considering everything going on.

The South American bid was previously considered favourite though because of the 100 year anniversary of the first which took place in Uruguay.
 
Fans shelling out loads of money to travel thousands of miles across different countries to attend the games. Fans seemingly slap bang at the bottom of the list of considerations, yet again.

I really don't like this trend of joint hosting as it feels like a cheat to get more countries to qualify automatically.

Can you remember when considering fans was a factor in football?
At the macro level - World Cups in Russia and Qatar
At the micro level - look at our ticket prices
 
So Spain and Portugal bid with added token Ukraine flag for the sympathy vote

Or am I being too cynical.
No not cynical. It seems an odd threesome but not as odd as Saudi being lumped in with Greece. Spain and Portugal works well. They are one peninsula and would make a great Wc tournament. Why you would want to play games away in Ukraine is just as you say tokenism.
 
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