Football is no longer just a simple sport activities, it can be an entertainment and business as well. No wonder they get harder to be the host of next Wold Cup event. This is what i found.
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron will travel to Zurich next month to urge FIFA, soccer’s governing body, to award England the right to stage the 2018 World Cup.
“The prime minister wants to offer the strongest possible support for what he thinks is an excellent bid,” Cameron’s office said in a statement.
Cameron has thrown his weight behind England’s attempt to host the tournament, using meetings on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Seoul to push fellow leaders to give their support. He will do the same at a NATO summit in Lisbon next week. Yesterday he met FIFA Vice-President Chung Mong-joon, a South Korean.
FIFA will decide in Zurich on Dec. 2 on where the World Cups in 2018 and 2022 are staged. England, Russia and joint offers from Spain and Portugal and the Netherlands and Belgium are vying for 2018. England won the competition in 1966, the only time it staged the event.
The U.S., Australia, Qatar, South Korea and Japan are competing to stage sport’s most watched event in 2022. Former President Bill Clinton, the honorary chairman of the U.S. bid committee, will also be going to Zurich to make a pitch to FIFA.
Cameron held a separate meeting yesterday with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and promised him “a good clean fight,” according to British officials who were present.
FIFA is investigating two of its 24-member decision-making panel after the Sunday Times newspaper alleged Nigeria’s Amos Adamu and Tahiti’s Reynald Temarii told undercover reporters they’d exchange their votes for cash. The findings will be announced on Nov. 17.
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