Less than one month is left for the World Cup 2026 vote that will take place during the annual general assembly of FIFA in Moscow. The 2026 World Cup’s venue will be decided by all the memberassociations of FIFA with an open vote. As most people know, there are two candidates: The United bid of […]
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World Cup 2026 race: United 2026's $11 billion play
United 2026, the World Cup 2026 bidcommittee working on behalf of the USA, Canada and Mexico, offers three slogans: “United,” “Certainty” and “Opportunity.” It should add a fourth: “Money.” The essentialargument United 2026 is making is that struggling FIFA will get a big pay-day if its members award United 2026 the World Cup 2026 hosting […]
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Report: FIFA secretary general faces ethics probe related to World Cup 2026 bid
Sepp Blatter has been out of power for more than two years, but FIFA intrigue continues full throttle. The latest: BBC Sport reported that Senegalese Fatma Samoura, the FIFA secretary general in charge of its day-to-day affairs, was reported to FIFA’s ethicscommittee for alleged breaches of “duty of disclosure, co-operation and reporting” and “conflicts of […]
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Report: FIFA offered $25 billion for rights to two competitions
The New York Times’ Tariq Panja reported that FIFA president Gianni Infantino was approached by aninvestment fund from the Middle East and Asia, which offered $25 billion for the rights to the FIFA Club World Cup and a new global league for national teams. Infantino has proposedexpanding the Club World Cup and play it once […]
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What They're Saying: Gianni Infantino
“We’ve put in place mechanisms to control who comes into this building. It’s the first time we’ve had these eligibility and integrity checks for all FIFA committees. And I can tell you that about 20percent of those who have been put forward for committees have not been admitted.” — FIFA president Gianni Infantino on the […]
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What They're Saying: Gianni Infantino
“I have been dealing with the evaluation of bids for over 20 years, in several different capacities, and I challenge anyone to point out an organization that conducts a bidding process as fair,objective and transparent as the one that FIFA is carrying out for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.” — FIFA president Gianni Infantino, pushing […]
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A battle royal — the World Cup 2026 campaign for Gulf support
In a conference call with the media on Monday, U.S. Soccer presidentCarlos Cordeiro said that “geopolitics” — anti-Donald Trump sentiments — wouldn’t impact the 2026 World Cup bid campaign pitting the USA, Canada and Mexico against Morocco. But international politics — the Gulf feud — are certainly a factor in the hotly contested battle for […]
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United 2026 chiefs downplay concerns about politics hurting bid's chances
By most accounts, the United 2026 bid is farsuperior to that presented by Morocco. Even with the withdrawal of major cities like Chicago and Vancouver, the joint bid committee representing the USA, Canada and Mexico announced a list of 23 host cities that it included in the bid submitted to FIFAon Friday.
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Tweet du jour
“World Cup 2026: Co-Hosting rejected by FIFA after 2002 (also applied in 2010 and 2018). And now: Morocco would be the logical host! And it is time for Africa again! #Fifa #CAF #@FIFAWorldCup” — Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who always enjoyed great support in Africa — he pushed for the 2010 World Cup to […]
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Latest from the FIFA corruption trial
“I would submit to you that never has more been made of less evidence.” — The winning argument of Bruce Udolf, the attorney for Manuel Burga, the 60-year-old formerpresident of the Peruvian soccer federation who was found not guilty of a single charge of racketeering conspiracy in the FIFA corruption trial that ended Tuesday. Unlike […]