2018 World Cup

US Soc­cer announced today that a friendly match against El Sal­vador will be held on Feb­ru­ary 24, 2010 at 7 p.m. at Ray­mond James Sta­dium in Tampa. The game will be broad­cast on ESP­N­Clas­sic and Tele­fu­tura. The recent news of Tampa mak­ing the final 18 pro­posed US venues for WC 2018/2022, and the Tampa Bay […]

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Who will hold the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups?  That will be decided in the next year or so as FIFA con­firmed that 13 nations offi­cially bid for the chance to host The Great Tour­na­ment.  Accord­ing to FIFA.com, Aus­tralia, Bel­gium and the Nether­lands, Eng­land, Indone­sia, Japan, Mex­ico, Rus­sia, Spain and Por­tu­gal, and the USA […]

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The dead­line for nations to bid on the 2018 & 2022 World Cup has passed and accord­ing to FIFA, 11 bids were sub­mit­ted. In alpha­bet­i­cal order, they are Aus­tralia, Bel­gium and the Nether­lands, Eng­land, Indone­sia, Japan, Korea Repub­lic, Mex­ico, Qatar, Rus­sia, Spain and Por­tu­gal, and the United States. FIFA Pres­i­dent Sepp Blat­ter said, “It is […]

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II">Analysis of Bids for 2018 World Cup — Part II

by George Metellus on January 29, 2009 · 3 comments

Let’s begin Part II of our analy­sis of bid­ders for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup with a sur­prise entrant whose deep pock­ets could sneak in and win the right to host a World Cup. QATAR The oil-rich nation with plen­ti­ful nat­ural gas reserves would become the 1st Arab nation to host a World Cup. According […]

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Analysis of Bids for 2018 World Cup — Part I

by George Metellus on January 28, 2009 · 1 comment

Over the past few weeks, numer­ous nations have bid for the rights to host the 2018 & 2002 FIFA World Cup. Since the 2018 World Cup is closer most of the news about host nation bids con­cerns the 2018 tour­na­ment. With 2010 in South Africa and 2014 in Brazil,  nations from UEFA, CONCACAF, Asia can […]

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