Comments on: Who Will Host World Cups 2018 and 2022?

By: mike

mike — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:00:43 +0000

Go Australia for the 2022 Football World Cup. No nation has done more for football development recently than Australia. Australia is the number one ranked footballing nation in Asia, Football is the number one junior code in Australia and the local league is improving rapidly. It’s also run a massive amount of football/regional development projects in Oceania, Asia and Africa. Australia deserves to host the football world cup and note key words there WORLD CUP!!! I’m not sure why the USA are going for either of these 2 world cups other than to resort to their usual tactics of bullying other nations, when they are almost guaranteed 2026 without any competition. Australia has the infrastructure, the passion and the will to host the biggest event on the planet after all they’ve hosted 2 olympics games, multiple world cups in other sports, commonwealth games, fifa youth cups, Formula 1, Indy cars, Grand Slam tennis tournaments and more Australia is more than ready right here, right now, for 2022!!! Come on Comeplay…www.australiabid.com.au

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:10:41 +0000

I am Australian and I hope we dont win the 2022. Can’t stand the bloody game. Additionally, why give it to a nation where the sport isnt the number 1 sport. Isnt this unfair to the European countries that love the game and where it is the no.1 sport?

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:54:08 +0000

Australia withdrew their candidacy for 2018 only this year, quite some time after this article was originally published,

By: dardy

dardy — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:01:38 +0000

Australia isn’t even bidding for 2018. They’re only bidding for 2022. Some European country will get 2014, but Australia should get 2022

By: Sean Adams

Sean Adams — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:34:31 +0000

michael James, no offense but you have no idea about the fifa world cup
you’re saying that australia has no chance because they have a low population and no infrastructure…maybe if you visit australia once in a while you may realise that we have sydney (5 million) and melbourne (4 million) who both have stadiums that fit up to 80,000-100,000
and since when is population a problem, we held the olympics in 2000 and other events such as world youth day and commonwealth games that hold countries around the world and quote “sydney hae held the best olympic games ever”
so im pretty sure australia has the ability to hold the olympics along with the fact that they’ve never held them before which is even a greater advantage
shows how much you know!!!

By: ummonk

ummonk — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:34:38 +0000

This list looks biased towards English speaking countries. To be honest, I would definitely favor Russia’s chances over Australias…

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:29:50 +0000

Michael, Michael, Michael…

It’s a shame to hear you write off the Australian bid when you really don’t have a clue about their stadiums or football habits. For me they are the logical choice in 2022 after England host in 2018.

To start, I hope that common sense prevails and England are given the rights to 2018. They’re facilities are fantastic and coming off the back of the 2012 Olympics they should have the know-how to work an awsome event. 52 years is a long enough time to wait for a country who lives, eats and dreams football.

As for Australia I agree that a rectangle stadium may be hard to maintain in Hobart, but what about in places like Geelong, Wollongong, Newcastle, Townsville, Gold Coast, Adelaide, Canberra and Gosford? Most of these places already have rectangular stadiums and established football teams from multiple codes. Some already hold the 40,000 and others could easliy be extended.

Add to those the likes of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane who have hosted Olympics, Rugby world cups and commonwealth games it’s looking pretty good to me. There is talk in Perth of another stadium to host their football and rugby teams. That would make three quality stadiums in the city, perhaps even two world cup teams could make it their base. The ACT government have also released plans for a new stadium in Canberra.

During the Olympic games, Sydney’s Homebush stadium was featured detachable wings and both sides were built on a slide. It was reduced by several thousand seats following the games and is now the home ground to most of the countries major football games, from all codes. There’s no reason something like that couldn’t happen again.

1994 was so boring. The Atlanta Olympics were boring. Please, please don’t send it to the USA. If its going to come down to money then surely Qatar is in with a chance too.

By: Liam

Liam — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:53:02 +0000

I find michaels lack of knowledge on Australian sporting grounds remarkable. Yes we have oval grounds but in NSW and QLD rugby rules the roost, meaning rectangular grounds. Australia fulfill the requirements of FIFA pound-for-pound more than any other serious bid. Yes the USA have the key from a moneytry position but the people simply are not interested in football. England reaches the requirements of FIFA with ease aswell and to satisfy the moneytry side of things and to stage the WC in the northan hemisphere i believe England will get 2018, leaving serious bids from OZ and US, FIFA wont go for the cash twice and looking to expand the game in not only a growing nation of football lovers but also a region where football is increasing in popularity every week Australia will get 2022.

By: Kman

Kman — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:57:17 +0000

These are my predictions

2018 – England – because they have all the infrastructure that is needed, and because the 2 world cups before it will be in the southern Hemisphere

2022 – Australia – because they are the strongest team in asia, and that football is rapidly growing. They have also never hosted the world cup before, and have hosted the 2000 Olympics, showing that they can handle global events. It is also a very safe and beautiful country, and more fans from around the world will be tempted to the world cup.

By: Thomas Bahar

Thomas Bahar — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:17:09 +0000

and im sure that if indonesia is chosen to be the host for world cup either 2018 or 2022, the government would be very pleased to upgrade all sorts of stuff such as stadiums, security, even the traffic which may be the biggest issues in indonesia.