FIFA has announced the schedule for application of visits of the evaluation in a tense race at the world Cup 2026.
As set out in the rules introduced after controversies in 2010, the decision to award the 2018 and 2022 world cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively, the recommendations of the ‘evaluation of proposals of the task force’ will go a long way to the decision on the joint bid of Canada, Mexico and the United States will be registered to vote Morocco application.
The American organization application has been a hot favorite, thanks to its secured commercial success, the choice of first-class facilities and the opportunity to develop the game in the richest market in the world, but Morocco is gaining momentum and could spring the upset, providing he can convince FIFA its bid viable.
The five-strong task force, which includes the chairmen of the audit committees and management of FIFA and ex-Croatia and AC Milan’s Zvonimir Boban star, now Deputy General Secretary of FIFA, visit primarily for the bidding.
They will begin in Mexico city on April 9, traveling to Atlanta the next day drove North to Toronto and end in new York, April 12/13th. Moroccan dates Marrakech on April 16, then to Agadir the next day, on the coast in Tangier on April 18, before finishing work in Casablanca a day later.
The purpose of the visits is to check on the proposed sites that meet the tender committees and clarification of technical details.
The test objects will be much easier in Canada, Mexico and the United States, since the proposed facilities already exist. Actually, Mexico city, Azteca has made in the 1970 and 1986 world Cup finals.
The Moroccan proposal, on the other hand, will require more imagination, because it is planned to expand existing stadiums in Marrakech and Tangier and to build a new Playground in Agadir and Casablanca. Marrakech also receive one of the five proposed ‘modular’ stadiums, which can be removed and used elsewhere after the tournament.
But if the bids of certainty in relation to the location, there are logistical problems in the organization of the tournament in the three countries as the target group needs to see, as they spend about seven hours in planes between the four cities.
The Moroccan proposal, however, has more to offer than the relative compactness. He will be keen to convince FIFA passion football-crazy population, his world Cup-inspired development plans and a friendly Time zone for the European fans.
But his best card is Donald trump. The rhetoric and actions of U.S. President managed to break the growing coalition of countries and anti-American sentiment can swing for Morocco.
Earlier this week, the Moroccan proposal was supported by Dominica and Saint Lucia, despite the Caribbean Islands were in the same Confederation as Canada, Mexico and the United States, and on Thursday the President of the French football Federation Noel Le graet told L’equipe newspaper that he would vote for Morocco too.
Geopolitics to go both ways, of course, as us soccer President Carlos Cordeiro demonstrated when he wrote about his meeting with the Saudi football officials on Tuesday.
Final selection of the adoption applications approved by the task force and the Board of FIFA, will be accepted by all member associations during the pre-world Cup Congress in Moscow on 13 June.
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