South America,Africa won't host 2018 World Cup

[persian boy]

MADRID, Spain (AP) - South America and Africa have no chance of hosting the 2018 World Cup.

"Of all five continents available to present, South America and Africa will not be allowed to," FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Sunday. "If we hadn't taken the decision to have a rotation policy in the first place, Africa would never had had the chance to host the World Cup, neither would South America."

FIFA's executive committee scrapped the rotation policy in October after it led to South Africa being picked to host the 2010 event and Brazil for 2014.

Blatter also said the joint bid of Netherlands-Belgium was the first to officially present it's 2018 candidacy to FIFA.

The 2018 host will be selected at an executive committee meeting in 2011.

Blatter, who was in the Spanish capital to pay tribute to Real Madrid great Alfredo Di Stefano, also said it wasn't likely that a soccer ball with a computer chip would be in use by then either.

"(The chip) is complicated and expensive ... is it really worth changing things for what turns out to be one case per year?" Blatter said. "The game will lose its fun and no longer be a talking point among fans."

Refereeing should be improved and Blatter said that a two-referee system would soon be tested to keep the sport from relying on the goal-line technology.

Africa will host 2010, and South America is too dangerous, so its not surprising really atleast we know now
so 2014 is in brazil?? i thought it was gonna be in aussie

[Obteene]

South Africa is plenty dangerous. I dont think the Middle East will host a WC in a looooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg time.

[mkbf2]

South Africa is plenty dangerous. I dont think the Middle East will host a WC in a looooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg time.

dont be so certain, i could see a joint bid with UAE, bahrain and qatar or somethin like that

[IPityDaFool]

yeah i agree with mkbf2

while i dont think UAE/Qatar/Bahrain has the proper facilities or sporting history to host the Olympics, they could be GREAT World Cup hosts.

the only thing that would be a problem would be the weather, but perhaps they would hold them in may or september when the weather is a bit more bearable?

UAE for example is PERFECT for the World Cup. easy to get to, easy to get around, soccer stadiums that could be built without problems, etc

unlike the olympics which requires everything from swimming facilities to 100,000 track stadiums, the WC could be held in a Persian Gulf country.

[PFS]

or 2 middle eastern countries can share the world cup like korea/japan

[Obteene]

Iran-Iraq

haha 32 teams enter, 1 survives, literally.

[Aryan]

haha 32 teams enter, 1 survives, literally.

lol

Imagine the pre game ceremonies

"Now bring out the lambs!"

[chuck bass]

dont be so certain, i could see a joint bid with UAE, bahrain and qatar or somethin like that

Or Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Phillipines lol

[chuck bass]

or 2 middle eastern countries can share the world cup like korea/japan

Korea and Japan aren't middle east

[persian boy]

^he was using how those 2 countries hosted together as an example

IRAN should be hosting it alone with Rah-Ahan's pitch being the stadium for the finals

[persian_parsa]

^he was using how those 2 countries hosted together as an example

IRAN should be hosting it alone with Rah-Ahan's pitch being the stadium for the finals

lol but we first need to host the asian cup before the wc. . . if we renovated them, these could possibly be good for the asian cup
Azadi (100,000)
Sepahan naghshe jahan (75,000)
Tabriz yadegar emam (70,000)
Samen (35,000) renovated to be more hopefully. . .

then we also need training pitches and hotels and transportation to be fixed up, but then we have the islamic restrictions. . .

[Sumerian]

Iran-Iraq

Funny you should say that because Jordan-Iraq were supposedly planning a bid for the 2014 World Cup back in '04.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...10/06/iraq.ap/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004.../iraq.football
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...0/ai_n12911425