Chapter 462: Bid for the World Cup
The World Cup is a world-famous football event, and under the control of FIFA, it has become a cornucopia, which will overshadow the Olympic Games in terms of commercial value.
There are many countries that want to bid for the World Cup, because it can not only bring economic benefits to the host country, but more importantly, international influence.
However, in the case of the expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams, it is not so easy to host a World Cup!
Like South Africa in 2010 and Brazil in 2014, they hosted a successful World Cup with the help of the whole country, but after the World Cup, they left a lot of chicken feathers in the country.
Now, it is very doubtful whether countries in economically underdeveloped regions such as Africa and South America have the ability to host a World Cup alone!
Whether developed countries, including those in Europe, can come up with tens of billions of euros to host a World Cup is also a matter of certainty.
The 2022 Qatar World Cup, it is said that Qatar officials spent more than 200 billion US dollars to host this World Cup!
This is an abnormal situation, Qatar is now facing internal and external difficulties, and needs this World Cup to enhance the country's international influence, so as to break the situation, naturally do not hesitate to spend money.
Moreover, Qatar, which has oil underground, has real money in its hands, a small country and a widow, and there is no place to spend money, so it can come up with such a huge amount of money.
The 2026 World Cup will be co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and it stands to reason that the United States and Canada are both developed countries, and Mexico's land area and population are also many times larger than Qatar's projectile land.
Why co-organize?
In addition to joining forces, which can increase the chances of success of the bid, there must also be other problems, and the economic investment in hosting the event must be the top priority.
The Dragon Kingdom has money, and it is now recognized by the whole world!
If you want to put out a list of countries that will host the World Cup alone, Dragon Country can not only be on the list, but also at the top, or even the top!
There is a factual basis for this.
More than a decade later, the 2008 Olympic Games are still deeply imprinted on the minds of sports fans, especially when compared to the London 2012 Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the recently concluded Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Whether it is the preparation process, or the holding period, as well as the aftermath of the disposal, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are far beyond the same kind!
With this precedent, FIFA has no doubts about the ability of the Dragon Kingdom to host the World Cup.
Now, with the improvement of the Dragon Country's record, the conditions for the Dragon Country to host the World Cup are fully ripe!
In the past, when Dragon Country football was sinking into a trough, Dragon Country's concerns about hosting the World Cup were mainly reflected in the fact that even if he could participate in the World Cup as the host, there was no guarantee of his record.
If you lose all three group stage games like you did when you first participated in the World Cup, then even if the World Cup is successfully hosted, the fans and the people of the whole country will not be satisfied.
The leader is even more dissatisfied!
The World Cup is for fans all over the world, and if the Dragon Team really loses all three of the group stage in the World Cup held at their doorstep, it will really be a shame in front of the people of the world.
The most important thing in the Dragon Kingdom is face!
Now, the situation is different, the Dragon Team is already the Asian champion, and also unexpectedly won the Copa America, defeating Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and other veritable world powerhouses, and the strength has improved significantly.
Although it is still not comparable to those world powerhouses, in the head-to-head confrontation, at least it will not be timid.
In the World Cup, the expansion to 48 teams, a large number of weak African, Central and North American and Caribbean teams are full of it, if you are lucky enough in the group draw, you have to win the lottery, draw a few weak opponents, the group qualification is almost a hand.
If you play some other tricks and arrange the teams that you may meet in the knockout stage to be not too strong, then it is possible to enter the top 16 or even the top 8.
Even if it is a World Cup held at their own doorstep, the Dragon Country team will not think about competing for the championship, although it will not be as brazen as the South Korean team in 2002, but how normal it is to play some means within the scope of the conditions!
For the current Dragon Country team, to participate in the World Cup, the goal is not to win the championship at all, but to try to strive for better results.
Moreover, with the current development trend of Longguo football, in another ten years, even if the second Shen Feng is not excavated and a few more Wu Lei and Zhang Xizhe are cultivated, the strength of the team can be further improved, and it can truly stand in the forest of the world's strongest teams.
At that time, there may not be any need to play any off-the-board tricks, and with hard power alone, you can reach the quarterfinals and semifinals of the World Cup.
What the Dragon Team can currently fight for is the right to host the World Cup in 2030, and once it succeeds, there will be seven or eight years of preparation time, which is enough to screen and train several batches of players.
Just like the current Qatari team.
In order to hold the 2022 World Cup on its home soil, the Qatar team has not lost too much face, and it has been preparing for the World Cup as early as the beginning of winning the right to host the World Cup, and it has still cultivated a group of players with good ability.
Don't look at the Qatar team in this Confederations Cup, losing all three games in the group stage and scoring only two goals, you think they are weak.
The reason why the Qatari team did not perform well in this Confederations Cup is mainly because the strength of the opponent is too strong, the French team is the double champion of the World Cup and the European Championship, the Uruguayan team is the champion of the Copa America, and the Costa Rica team is also the champion of the Gold Cup in the Central and North American and Caribbean regions.
But in the World Cup, with the increase in the number of participating teams, there are more actions that can be done.
Qatar team, as the host, in the World Cup group stage group draw, automatically able to avoid France, Brazil and other world powerhouses, if the Qatar Football Association is shameless enough, can give up face, in the group draw to do some tricks, draw a few opponents like New Zealand, Panama, and then in the process of the game "hard", the group qualification, it is still possible.
Within the Dragon Kingdom, there is now a discussion on whether it is appropriate to bid for the 2030 World Cup.
Longguo's bid for the World Cup is certain, and the question now is only which World Cup to bid for.