BEIRUT: Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa, said the body wanted to host another World Cup, in 2030 or 2034, and that 'Saudi Arabia is coming in force'. Asia has staged the World Cup twice: in South Korea and Japan in 2002 and in 2022 in Qatar. 'I t
BEIRUT: Asian Football Confederation president, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa, said the body wanted to host another World Cup, in 2030 or 2034, and that"Saudi Arabia is coming in force"."I think Saudi Arabia is a country capable of organising a similar tournament," Sheikh Salman, who is from Bahrain, told journalists in Beirut on Monday during a visit to Syria and Lebanon.
There are two proposed multi-nation bids for 2030, one from Spain, Portugal and Morocco, and one by Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, which would return the centenary World Cup to the site of the first final, in Montevideo. Sheikh Salman said he wanted to make sure the AFC was united behind any bid and had support from elsewhere.
Emulating neighbours Qatar and United Emirates, Saudi Arabia has been investing heavily in sport as part of the"Vision 2030" strategy to diversify an oil-dependent economy.
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