2024-05-23 16:36:40
Brazil was chosen this Friday because the host of the 2027 Ladies’s World Cup, beating a joint bid from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, at a FIFA congress held in Thailand and marked by the controversy on the struggle in Gaza.
Following the success of the 2023 version in Australia and New Zealand, which earned a file $570 million in industrial income, FIFA opted to proceed its push to increase girls’s soccer by bringing the match to South America for the primary time.
The delegates gathered in Bangkok voted by 119 votes to 78 in favor of sending the tenth version of this competitors to the nation of samba, which sparked the enjoyment of the Brazilian delegation.
The president of the Brazilian Soccer Confederation (CBF), Ednaldo Rodrigues, offered FIFA’s choice as “a victory for Latin American soccer and for ladies’s soccer in Latin America.”
The historic star of Brazilian girls’s soccer, Marta, additionally celebrated the information: “It will likely be successful and the Brazilian folks, as all the time, will probably be with open arms to welcome the worldwide soccer neighborhood,” the 38-year-old participant wrote on Instagram.
Brazil scored larger than its European rival in FIFA’s analysis report. FIFA inspectors highlighted the “large affect of ladies’s soccer within the area” that the group of the Ladies’s World Cup in Latin America would have.
Brazil’s candidacy contains 10 stadiums that had been used for the 2014 Males’s World Cup. The well-known Maracana in Rio de Janeiro ought to host the opening match and the ultimate.
Nevertheless, it is going to be essential to do work, notably within the Amazonia stadium in Manaus, which has been virtually unused for a decade.
The Brazilian Soccer Confederation (CBF) has additionally been caught up in a whirlwind of authorized actions towards its president.
Not like their male counterparts, who’ve gained 5 World Cups, the Brazilians have by no means lifted the trophy and had been eradicated within the group stage in 2023.
The 2023 match dispelled fears that growing the variety of groups from 24 to 32 would dilute the spectacle, with greater than 1.4 million followers in attendance.
The one bitter notice got here after the ultimate in Sydney, through which Spain beat England 1-0.
The then president of the Spanish Soccer Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, sparked outrage when he forcibly kissed midfielder Jenni Hermoso in the course of the medal ceremony, and now faces prosecution for sexual assault.
– Debate on Gaza –
The 2027 host election was simplified when the US and Mexico withdrew their joint candidacy in April and determined to concentrate on attempting to win the proper to host the 2031 version.
Because the match in Brazil approaches, consideration will concentrate on the large monetary disparity between males’s and girls’s soccer.
Prize cash for the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup has reached a file $110 million, however continues to be removed from the $440 million provided to groups on the 2022 males’s ultimate in Qatar.
The congress additionally heard a name from the Palestinian Soccer Federation (PFA) to droop Israel from the world physique and ban Israeli groups from taking part in FIFA occasions.
PFA President Jibril Rajoub said that the Israeli Soccer Affiliation (IFA) has violated FIFA guidelines: “FIFA can not afford to stay detached to those violations or to the continued genocide in Palestine.”
His Israeli counterpart, Shino Moshe Zuares, for his half referred to as the Palestinian name “cynical, political and hostile”, insisting that the IFA has not violated any FIFA guidelines.
FIFA’s high chief, Gianni Infantino, said that the physique would obtain unbiased authorized recommendation on the matter and would determine earlier than July 20 what measures to take.
– Adjustments within the statutes –
The congress additionally authorized modifications to FIFA’s statutes, eliminating the rule that established the group’s headquarters in Zurich, the place it has been since 1932.
The rule now says that the situation of the headquarters will probably be “decided by a choice authorized by congress”, which opens the way in which for it to go away the Swiss metropolis.
Delegates additionally voted to increase the variety of committees from seven to 35, reversing measures taken in 2016 to scrub up FIFA after it was rocked by a wave of corruption scandals.
The competencies of the brand new committees embrace girls’s soccer, the battle towards racism and eSports.
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