World Cup 2030: South American candidacy is relaunched in Argentina with the boost of the third star of the national team

If the South American bid for the World Cup 2030 made sense, the conquest of the Argentina national team In Qatar gave a boost to the region which next Tuesday will materialize in a symbolic meeting which will have its weight in June when Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguayan AND kilos formalize before FIFA the will to jointly organize the centenary edition of the World Cup.

The meeting will be at the Julio Grondona owned by Argentine Football Federation (AFA) and will bring together the presidents of the confederations wishing to host the centenary edition of the competition; the holder of Conmebol, Alejandro Dominguezand government officials from different countries. They will look for a message in that photo that travels the world and reaches FIFA: that 100 years after the first World Cup, there is no more propitious place than this territory for their dispute.

The president of the AFA, Claudius Tapiawill host a meeting in which, in addition to Domínguez, his peers from the associations involved in the candidacy will participate: Ignatius Alonso (Uruguay); Robert Harrison (Paraguayan); AND Sebastian Moreno (Kilos). They will own the majority of the clubs Professional soccer league and several of the Ascent, both inland and metropolitan, which form the primary core of the management of chikiand representatives of each of the stars obtained: samples of 1978, 1986 and 2022.

Beyond the airs of sports executives, to organize the World Cup Fifa closes an agreement with the governments. And, as in Argentina, the World Cup is also on the agendas of the rest of the governments. The minister of Tourism and Sports, Matthias Lammenshe will also be part of the meeting with interests in the breadth of his portfolio: sport, but above all what it means in terms of tourism.

“The main argument is the opportunity to give back to South America what has contributed to the sport. We relaunch the candidacy of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile for the 2030 World Cup”the minister announced in a radio interview Net. Spain, Portugal AND Ukraine work together for the same purpose and also Saudi Arabia expressed interest. Times are shortening: there is time until June to present the candidacies in Zurich and next year, at the next congress of the institution, the organizer will be defined.

“This meeting will give the (South American) candidacy important visibility”Lammens said in the same interview. There is a fifth country that wishes to join the organisation: although Bolivian the former president did not make a formal request Evo Morales publicly expressed that country’s interest in adding a headquarters.

What chances does the quartet – or quintet – of South American countries have against the aspirations of Europeans or Arabs? “In terms of material and economic resources they are more powerful, but what must weigh is tradition, history and what South America has meant for world football”we hoped for the declarations at Futurock.

Background

The idea of ​​the Centenary World Cup in the region is more than a decade old and was the idea of ​​the then president of the AFA Giulio Grondonawhich in 2010 had the approval of those who held the reins of FIFA, Joseph Blatterwho gave his thumbs up to the initiative involving the winners as organizers: Argentina and Uruguay.

A year later, the first agreement was signed between the governments of both countries and bears the titles of Cristina Fernández AND Jose Mujica. After Grondona’s death in 2014, the idea lost steam in the AFA. At that time, the succession to power could not find a president who brought together unanimity and consensus – beyond dissidence – and the energies were not directed in that direction. Louis Segurawho assumed the vacant presidency, admitted it was not on the institutional agenda. kilos AND ColombiaSo they took the job and ran together and informally.

Before the FIFA Gate collapsed the foundations of the football organization, the then president of Conmebol, Juan Angel Napouttook the inheritance of Don Julius and promoted River Plate’s candidacy. A year later he was the then president of Argentina, Maurizio Macrihe has regained the political momentum of the issue together with his Uruguayan counterpart tabare vazquez. It was at that moment that the AFA regained interest: the top management expressed their approval, including Lammens, as president of San Lorenzo.

Without Napout and with Domínguez at the helm of South American football, the project expanded borders: Chile and Paraguay joined Uruguay and Argentina. After a 13-year journey with political twists -of football and countries-, the AFA will relaunch the original idea of ​​Julio Grondona, in the Ezeiza property that bears his name.