Australian bidders promote World Cup bid in Asia

Frank Lowy has wasted little time in trying to persuade Asian members to back a bid to bring the World Cup to Australia, the billionaire pushing his country’s cause at a Football Arena conference here on Tuesday.
Lowy, Football Federation Australia chairman, is championing the proximity to Asia and the region’s “staggering” economic growth as key [...]

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matty1974 said | November 25th 2009 @ 7:16pm | Report comment

Can’t wait for December 2010, when Australia is announced as the host country for the 2018 or 2022 WC!
In recent days, Jack Warner has endorsed the bid, Andreas Abold and his consultancy company have been revealed to be working on the bid (same firm responsible for the successful Germany 2006 and South Africa 2010 bids and Abu Dhabi’s 2009/2010 wcc bids, see http://www.abold.de/index.php?id=39) and now Sydney announced as a FIFA live site, along with London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro (all previous WC final cities).

Not to mention that Australia will be the leading Aisan bid (Qatar and Indonesia have no chance and Japan and Korea’s 2002 WC is too recent for them to be seriously considered) and after Europe gets the other WC, the only competition will be the USA, who were the first country to be eliminated in the 2016 Olympics bid and who will want the world cup played during American prime time = early hours of the morning in Europe and Aisa.

COME PLAY!