A delegation from the RFEF has worked this week in Lisbon together with the Portuguese Federation in the joint Bid with Morocco to organize the 2030 World Cup in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. The concern among the RFEF’s World Cup partners is maximum, but there is also a well-founded suspicion that this situation will end up affecting our country, which could lose the favor of FIFA.
Morocco, which entered as a guest in the project after removing FIFA itself from Ukraine due to a corruption scandal that affected the president of that federation, now aspires to gain prominence and deploys all its diplomatic power in FIFA to achieve what it secretly wants. he never resigned: it is his territory to organize the final of the 2030 World Cup, which in all probability will be awarded to the Euro-African Bid. To begin with, to the judicial troubles that shake the RFEF, Morocco responds with the announcement of the construction of a monumental stadium in Casablanca with capacity for 110,000 spectators with which they aspire to organize the World Cup final on July 21 of the year 2030.
Fouzzi Lekjaa, president of the Moroccan Football Federation. JOSE SENA GOULAOEFE
At the moment, Spain is the country that has the advantage to organize the final match of the tournament, for which the Santiago Bernabéu stadium aspires. But the latest events in the RFEF have aroused misgivings in FIFA, which does not take a dim view of meeting Morocco’s aspirations in this regard since the other partner, Portugal, cannot organize such a match. António Laranjo, coordinator of the joint Bid of the three countries, indicated that the Portuguese country will not host the final of the tournament, so it will have to be played in Spain or Morocco. “Portugal does not have that stadium (with capacity for at least 80,000 seats), it is not going to make investments to expand the capacity of the stadiums, which means that Portugal is not going to have the 2030 World Cup final,” said Laranjo. .
The influence that Morocco is deploying collides with the scandals in Spain. And we must remember that FIFA already removed Ukraine (to include Morocco precisely) for much less. The president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, maintains a good relationship with the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and sources familiar with the process do not rule out contacting him to express his concern about the situation in the RFEF.
Pedro Sánchez, president of the Government of Spain with Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA.EFE/MONCLOA
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2024-03-21 04:46:51
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