Lise Klaveness is the first football federation chief to go public with concerns about the rapid, short-circuit process that effectively decided the 2030 and 2034 hosts in secret meetings led by FIFA President Gianni Infantino.
Genuinely, does anyone want the world cup to be in their country? It would cost billions that can go anywhere else. As far as I’m concerned, let the arab countries host every wc and Olympics from now until the end of time. We don’t need more stadiums, we need roads, schools, healthcare etc
The European Big 5 has all the stadiums and infrastructure and many other countries do as well. Brazil is an interesting example for this. They didn’t really have to spend much for the world cup. But they did anyway. They for example build a giant stadium in the capital not because they needed another stadium but because they wanted a stadium in the capital. The world cup was just an excuse.
The Olympics are a bit different. Many countries would have most of the infrastructure to host the olympics but the IOC requires them all to be in the same city which makes the costs sky rocket. The World cup happens in many different cities so it doesn’t suffer that problem.
Genuinely, does anyone want the world cup to be in their country? It would cost billions that can go anywhere else. As far as I’m concerned, let the arab countries host every wc and Olympics from now until the end of time. We don’t need more stadiums, we need roads, schools, healthcare etc
The European Big 5 has all the stadiums and infrastructure and many other countries do as well. Brazil is an interesting example for this. They didn’t really have to spend much for the world cup. But they did anyway. They for example build a giant stadium in the capital not because they needed another stadium but because they wanted a stadium in the capital. The world cup was just an excuse.
The Olympics are a bit different. Many countries would have most of the infrastructure to host the olympics but the IOC requires them all to be in the same city which makes the costs sky rocket. The World cup happens in many different cities so it doesn’t suffer that problem.