US Withdraws Bid to Host 2018 World Cup
US Withdraws Bid to Host
2018 World Cup
The United States World Cup bidding committee has decided to
withdraw its bid to host the 2018 World Cup and focus its
attention on trying to win the right to host the 2022 tournament
instead.
The announcement was made on Friday after what the committee
called “several months of careful deliberation” which followed a
series of meetings with the sport's ruling body FIFA and Europe's
controlling body UEFA. The withdrawal of the US bid
leaves four candidates vying to host the 2018 tournament, all of
them from Europe.
In addition to England and Russia, there are joint bids from
Spain-Portugal and from Belgium-the Netherlands. As for the
US's attempt to host the event in 2022, they will have to compete
with bids from Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Qatar in order
to win the right to host the World Cup for the second time,
having previously held the event in 1994.
Since the tournament is not allowed to be held on the same
continent two times consecutively, the 2018 bidders, as well as
any other European nations, will be forbidden from bidding on the
2018 Cup.
"For some time we have been in conversations with FIFA and UEFA
about the possibility of focusing only on the 2022 bidding
process, an option we have made reference to many times," bid
chairman Sunil Gulati, the president of U.S. Soccer and chairman
of the bis committee, said in a statement.
"We are confident this is in the best interests of the USA Bid.
We wanted to make the announcement now, still 48 days before the
final decision, in order to make our intentions clear during the
last part of our campaign."
The Switzerland-based executive committee of FIFA is scheduled to
meet later this month to discuss the final bids before a decision
is announced for both tournaments on December 2nd.
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