Australia to push no worries World Cup
By AAP, 2 Dec 2009 AAP is a Roar Pro
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Australia will offer to host a “no worries” FIFA World Cup as it goes head to head with its nine rivals for the first time in its bid for the 2018 or 2022 tournaments.
One year out from the decision on host countries for those sporting extravaganzas, Football Federation Australia chairman Frank Lowy, chief executive Ben Buckley and Federal Sports Minister Kate Ellis head a lobby group to present Australia’s case at a Bidding Nations Media Expo in Cape Town on Friday.
The presentation will be done just hours before the 2010 World Cup draw is conducted, revealing the Socceroos group opponents at next year’s tournament in South Africa.
Lowy and Buckley are already in Cape Town along with Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek, FFA officials and eight children who won state and territory competitions to serve as bid “emissaries”.
The Media Expo is the first of three significant opportunities for the 10 bidders representing 11 countries will get to present their case to the international football community.
And Buckley was confident the FFA had a bid that would give it a strong chance.
“We offer a ‘no worries’ World Cup which is also fun, relaxed, safe and secure, a great destination and provides a warm welcome,” Buckley said.
“With one year to go, it’s time to step up our efforts from now and throughout 2010 until D-day.
“FIFA has set a level playing field by giving each of us guidelines to adhere to, but we believe Australia’s credentials and our emissaries representing the young people of Australia will help set us apart and position us strongly.
“It’s a high quality, competitive field that we’re in, but we are very encouraged by the feedback on our work to date.
“Our work and our efforts over the next 12 months will increase in 2010 and be even more targeted to make sure we bring the FIFA World Cup home to Australia in 2018 or 2022.”
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Mr cheese said | December 2nd 2009 @ 11:10am | Report comment
Sorry, lads, but there is no chance of it ever going to the colony.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m not all that interested in seeing it come here to England. It makes no great difference to my life one way or the other.
Le probleme, c’est que…………….the Aussie bid seems to have only 1 thing going for it: the number of TV sets in Asia. That’s important, true, but it ain’t the only thing of significance.
Australia simply doesn’t have the stadiums. This is nothing like the RU World Cup of 2003.
Furthermore, as I understand, there is much resistance from the other sports who think ( reasonably enough ) that they should not be inconvenienced just because of the soccer.
oikee said | December 2nd 2009 @ 3:32pm | Report comment
No worries Cheese, but if having the world cup is going to provide trillions of dollars to our economy, bring it on, 2022 will be good, gives us time to arrange everything. No worries mate.
KB said | December 3rd 2009 @ 7:07am | Report comment
No worries Mr Cheese, get your Digital TV set, throw another prawn on the barbie and sit back and enjoy… The convict lads will pick pocket it from right under the noses of the Poms … No worries … Bring it on in OZ for 2018… Where the bloody hell are ya ??? !!! ….
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KB