Spain and Portugal, with Ukraine as the host, are taking on the joint proposal of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile
The Council of Ministers on Tuesday approved the award of a €7.5 million grant to the Spanish Football Federation (FEF) “for the preparation and development of the candidacy for the 2030 World Cup in Spain, Portugal and Ukraine”. The so-called Iberian candidacy will compete against the joint proposal by Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile to host the championship, which will be held in eight years, before being held in the United States, Mexico and Canada in 2026. an aid of 7.5 million to the Spanish candidacy will be financed from the expenditure budget of the Higher Sports Council (CSD) for the year 2022.
This investment is intended to promote the Spanish candidacy through various activities. Among them they mention “holding meetings and events in different parts of the country and abroad; the creation of a technical office for the coordination of events; the dissemination of the initiatives through social communication tools; the development of the necessary infrastructure for training centers and modernization of national and autonomous selections; and technology support.
The benefits of hosting the Football World Cup relate to several areas, “its impact on the tourism industry in different parts of the country is particularly significant, making the event also a lever for the projection of the landmark and, in its turn, of the regional brands,” the government said. The 13 aspiring cities to host the 2030 World Cup are Madrid (Santiago Bernabéu and Metropolitano), Barcelona (Camp Nou and Cornellá), Seville (La Cartuja), Valencia (Mestalla), Bilbao (San Mamés), San Sebastián (Anoeta) , Zaragoza (La Romareda), Málaga (La Rosaleda), La Coruña (Riazor), Vigo (Balaídos), Gijón (El Molinón), Murcia (La Condomina) and Las Palmas (Gran Canaria Stadium).
rotation of continents
“Spain, together with Portugal and Ukraine, thus faces one of the most important challenges in the international sports context in the coming years, which requires the combined efforts and potential of their respective governments and football federations to submit a joint candidacy”, emphasizes the Spanish government. Ukraine would be the symbolic venue and host the matches of one of the groups of the first stage of the competition. Spain and Portugal have already applied to host the 2018 event, but FIFA ultimately chose Russia as the venue for the World Cup won by France at the time.
Taking into account the usual rotation of continents, it is very difficult for the candidacy of Argentina (world champion), Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile to prevail against the candidacy of Spain and Portugal, also relaunched because they included Ukraine, invited and already immersed in a project “that wants to send society a message of hope based on the transformative power of football”, as emphasized by the FEF.
The Council of Ministers on Tuesday also approved a grant of 12 million euros (six million in 2022 and another six in 2023) for the digital skills training of at least 6,000 top athletes and technicians until September 2025. The beneficiary of this new grant is is the Spanish Sports Federation (Adesp), a national organization and permanent discussion partner of the sports industry.
Source: La Verdad
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