FIFA sẽ tổ chức World Cup 2030 trên ba châu lục

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Soccer’s World Cup will be staged in six countries on three continents (châu lục) in its centenary (100 năm) edition in 2030, an unexpected and complex alteration (sự thay đổi bất ngờ và phức tạp) to its traditional format that was approved on Wednesday in a meeting of FIFA’s governing council.

In the unusual arrangement, three South American countries — Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay — each will host a single opening match (trận mở màn) on home soil (sân nhà) and then join the rest of the field for the remainder of the tournament, which will take place in Spain, Portugal and Morocco.

The six countries had initially joined forces regionally in separate bids (cuộc đấu thầu riêng biệt) for the hosting rights (quyền đăng cai) to the 100th anniversary World Cup, a globe-stopping, monthlong soccer festival that produces billions of dollars in revenue for FIFA every four years.

The offer from the South American nations had long been considered an outsider, however, to the three-nation bid from Spain, Portugal and Morocco, which was officially declared the sole bidder for 2030 on Wednesday. But under the new arrangement to recognize the tournament’s centenary, each nation will get to take a turn as a host.

...The first World Cup was held in 1930 in Uruguay, when the championship was a compact, 13-team affair held over two-and-a-half weeks in a single city, the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. It has since grown to be one of the most valuable (có giá trị) and most watched sporting events in the world, a financial juggernaut (sự kiện tài chính khổng lồ) that FIFA projects will produce record revenues of at least $11 billion for its current four-year cycle, almost double what it earned in the last one.

source: nytimes,