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Russia gets 2018 World Cup
Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup, defeating a bid by the United States in a vote by FIFA's executive committee Thursday.
Qatar will make history by hosting the first World Cup in the Middle East. Australia, South Korea and Japan were also bidding for the 2022 tournament.
FIFA also awarded Russia its first World Cup in a vote for the 2018 tournament host. Twenty-two FIFA executive committee members cast their votes by secret ballot in Zurich. The other contenders for 2018 were England, Spain-Portugal and Belgium-Netherlands.
FIFA approved an ambitious bid by Qatar that includes a plan to spend $4 billion on air-conditioned stadiums in a country where summer temperatures typically exceed 118 degrees.
Tuesday
Vote this week for 2018 and 2022 Amid Bribe Allegations
On Thursday, December 2, 2010 in Zurich, football's world governing body Fifa will announce the countries it has chosen to host the World Cup in 2018 and 2022.
There are four bids on the table for the 2018 World Cup, with England hopeful of beating Spain/Portugal, Netherlands/Belgium and Russia for the right to host the competition for the first time since 1966.
Five bidders are vying for the 2022 tournament: Japan, Australia, United States of America, South Korea and Qatar.
What is especially interesting is that:
The BBC Panorama, broadcast on Monday, alleged that Fifa officials Issa Hayatou - Confederation of African Football chief, from Cameroon - Nicolas Leoz, from Paraguay, and Ricardo Teixeira, from Brazil, took bribes from a sport marketing firm which was awarded lucrative World Cup rights.
The men will vote this week on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.
Russia will waive visa requirements for participants AUG. 2010
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told a FIFA delegation Tuesday that Russia will waive visa requirements for participants if it wins hosting rights for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.
Nine candidates, including England and the United States, are seeking to host the competition in either year, and FIFA is currently touring the bidding nations ahead of a decision Dec. 2.
“We are ready to extend extra, governmental guarantees on visa-free entry for participants and guests of the World Cup,” Putin told the visiting delegation at his residence outside Moscow.
Russia has axed visa requirements for sports events before, allowing Manchester United and Chelsea fans arriving for the 2008 Champions League final to simply show their tickets at passport control.
The head of the inspection committee, Harold Mayne-Nicholls, welcomed the idea as “extremely important.”
Russia is vowing to construct all facilities from scratch, except the venue for the final at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium. Putin on Tuesday extolled the virtues of the clean slate approach, which also helped Russia secure the rights to host the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
The city’s Olympic facilities, now half-built, were barely in blueprints when the International Olympic Committee granted Russia the hosting rights at a ceremony in Guatemala in 2007.
Putin also said the construction of world-class football stadiums will go ahead regardless of whether Russia is granted hosting rights, co-funded out of state coffers and private investment.
FIFA’s visit to Russia ends Thursday, when the inspection team will have visited four potential host cities of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan and Sochi.
Also bidding for either tournament are Belgium-Netherlands and Spain-Portugal. Australia, Japan, Qatar and South Korea are applying for 2022 only.
The inspection team has already visited Japan, South Korea, Australia and Belgium-Netherlands. England is next on the agenda, beginning Aug. 23.
Thursday
World Cup Football 2022 worth over 35 Billion dollars for Australia
An IBISWorld study released today estimated the 2022 World Cup would generate $35.5 billion in spending across the Australian economy - dwarfing the $9 billion generated by the 2000 Olympics.
"Football event on the planet. However, when it comes to spending, there is a clear winner," said IBISWorld general manager (Australia) Robert Bryant. "IBISWorld forecasts that the 2022 World Cup in Australia would, in real terms, generate four times more spending than the 2000 Olympics."Over one million people have entered South Africa's borders since early June and that number would be much higher in Australia because of the pre-2010 tournament security fears.
Just as the 2006 World Cup changed the perception of Germany, the 2010 World Cup has left the globe viewing South Africa and the entire African continent in a much more positive light.
With Australia's 22 million a fraction of the world's 6.7 billion population, the World Cup provides Australia with a wonderful opportunity to become part of the world and not apart from it.
If people thought the Olympics were huge, the World Cup will hit them for six, attracting 750,000 spectators from abroad as opposed to Sydney 2000's 130,000.
Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, Gold Coast, Newcastle, Geelong and Townsville would all get a slice of the pie this time - not just Sydney.
While the majority of Australians support the World Cup bid, some of the minority that didn't would probably change their view if the information they were receiving on the World Cup and football generally was objective.
Wednesday
Soccer has the Best Boobs, I mean fans! Sexy!
Soccer has the Best Boobs, I mean fans! Sexy!
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Please share your pictures and / or stories about Fanatical Fans.
Thursday
Sexy Beautiful 2010 World Cup Soccer Football Fans in South Africa
Sexy Beautiful 2010 World Cup Soccer Football Fans in South Africa
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Sexy Beautiful 2010 World Cup Fans in South Africa
Sexy Beautiful 2010 World Cup Fans in South Africa
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Thursday
June 2010 Australia's growing confidence for hosting the 2022 World Cup
CANBERRA, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Australia has been firming as the likely winner of 2022 World Cup bid, as Football Federation Australia (FFA) is now more confident of securing FIFA's support to host the tournament than ever before, Australia's media reported on Thursday.
In an exclusive interview with The Australian in Johannesburg, where FFA chairman Frank Lowy was lobbying FIFA, Lowy said the feedback he was getting about Australia's campaign for the 2018-2022 World Cups was even more positive than at last December's acclaimed formal presentation in Cape Town.
Lowy also revealed that he was keeping open the option of narrowing the bid to just one of those World Cups 2022 to maximize the chances of victory.
"We are gaining ground," Lowy told The Australian on Wednesday.
"I am talking to the people that matter and I hear what they say. I hear their sentiments and I am hearing some very good sentiments about Australia."
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ESPN Soccer Fan Poster
This undated artists rendering provided by ESPN shows a South Africa soccer fan. ESPN thinks the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament will dominate a time period when soccer overlaps the U.S. Open golf tournament, the NBA and NHL playoffs, andWimbledon.
ESPN Soccer Fan Poster
This undated artists rendering provided by ESPN shows a South Africa soccer fan. ESPN thinks the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament will dominate a time period when soccer overlaps the U.S. Open golf tournament, the NBA and NHL playoffs, andWimbledon.
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2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids
2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups is currently under way. These will be the 21st and 22nd editions of the FIFA World Cup. The bidding procedure to host both the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup began in January 2009, and national associations had until 2 February 2009 to register their interest.[1] The executive committee of FIFA will announce their decision on the two editions in December 2010.[2] Candidates have applied for either or both of the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, but the 2022 hosts will not be chosen from the same continent as the 2018 hosts.[3]
Nine individual nations registered their intention to bid with FIFA by the February 2009 deadline: Australia, England, Indonesia, Japan, Qatar, Mexico, Russia, South Korea and the United States. Additionally Belgium and the Netherlands registered to bid together, as have Portugal and Spain.[4] Mexico however later withdrew its bid. FIFA confirmed the list of bidders in March, with Indonesia, South Korea and Qatar bidding for 2022 only.[5]
In October 2007, FIFA ended the continental rotation policy. Instead the last two tournament host confederations are ineligible, leaving Africa ineligible for 2018 and South America ineligible for both 2018 and 2022.[6] Other factors in the selection process include the number of suitable stadia, and their location across candidate nations. Due to the number of bids received by FIFA, this World Cup is expected to be the most hotly contested bid ever, mainly due to the revision in FIFA's rotation policy. As a result, Sepp Blatter has said that FIFA may follow the International Olympic Committee and have a preliminary elimination of bids some time before the final ceremony.[7]
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