Posted on 15 January 2010.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan has 13 prospective venues should the country win the right to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cups, the country’s bid leaders said on Thursday.
Japan has bid for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups despite initially saying it would only do so if Tokyo won the vote to stage the 2016 Olympics. Rio de Janeiro was picked to host those Games.
The Japan Football Association (JFA) plans to use nine of the 10 venues from the 2002 World Cup which the country co-hosted with South Korea.
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Posted on 13 January 2010.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Eighteen cities were named as part of a United States bid for the 2018 or 2022 soccer World Cup on Tuesday, but Chicago was notably absent from the list.
The 18 cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas and Boston, have stadiums with average seating capacities of 78,000 for a World Cup.
Other cities named in the bid that will be presented to FIFA on May 14 were Atlanta, Baltimore, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Nashville, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, Tampa and Washington D.C.
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Posted on 07 January 2010.
JAKARTA (Reuters) – The Indonesian Soccer Federation is confident that the country’s government will provide the necessary funding to support their ambitious bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
“We’re waiting for the government to make their decision whether they will back the bid,” Indonesian soccer federation secretary-general Nugraha Besoes told Reuters by telephone on Monday.
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Posted on 17 December 2009.
LONDON (Reuters) – London’s 2012 Olympic stadium could stage matches during the 2018 soccer World Cup if England wins the right to host the tournament, bid organisers said on Wednesday.
Brian Mawhinney, chairman of the Host City selection panel, named 17 stadiums in 12 candidate cities and towns as potential venues should FIFA award the 2018 event to England at next December’s vote.
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Posted on 09 December 2009.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s cabinet has endorsed the country’s bid to host either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.
Kyodo said the government does not plan to fund any infrastructure costs but pledged to cooperate with security, transportation and immigration issues if Japan was successful in winning the right to host the tournament.
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Posted on 25 November 2009.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – The searing desert heat of a Middle East summer will be no obstacle to Qatar hosting a World Cup finals, the Gulf State’s bid chief said on Tuesday while promising new heat-confounding technologies.
Qatar hopes to stage the 2022 soccer extravaganza and painted an alluring picture to the sport’s insiders meeting in the Malaysian capital this week.
“It will be hot, but not too hot,” the bid’s CEO Hassan Al Thawadi told reporters. “We are developing technology which will help with the June and July heat and conditions.”
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Posted on 25 November 2009.
LONDON (Reuters) – Premier League chairman Dave Richards resigned from the board of England’s 2018 World Cup bid on Tuesday.
Richards said he could best support the bid without sitting on the board.
Manchester United chief executive David Gill, who holds an advisory role to England’s bid committee, said it was a personal decision by Richards, but called for a period of stability following the resignation of six members earlier this month.
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Posted on 28 October 2009.
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The World Cup would benefit the United States by at least $5 billion if the country is chosen to host the 2018 or 2022 global soccer tournament, the U.S. bid committee said on Tuesday.
The U.S. bid group, which called the estimate “conservative,” also estimated that between 65,000 and 100,000 total new jobs would be created in the various host cities during preparation and operation of the tournament.
“The numbers delivered by this study fully support our initial estimations,” David Downs, USA Bid Committee executive director, said in a statement. The USA Bid Committee paid for the study by a unit of AECOM Technology Corp.
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Posted on 23 October 2009.
Australia’s place in Asia can help it host a soccer World Cup that will reap the sport more money than the other nations vying for the honour can deliver.
That is the argument mounted by Football Federation Australia (FFA) chairman Frank Lowy, who is confident Australia will win the right to host the coveted event in either 2018 or 2022.
Frank Lowy, Football Federation Australia chairman, stated that more money would come to the sport from holding the process in Asia-Pacific than from anywhere.
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Posted on 09 October 2009.
LONDON (Reuters) – The World Cup would benefit England by at least $5 billion if the country was chosen to host the 2018 tournament, bid chairman Andy Anson said on Thursday.
“Every region will benefit if the World Cup came to England in 2018,” he told a Leaders in Football conference at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium.
“In fact, an initial independent financial study indicates that an England 2018 World Cup will see five billion pounds ($8.04 billion) spent during the tournament benefiting England’s economy by 3.2 billion pounds.
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