Benelux to Bid on 2018 World Cup
You have to give the Benelux countries some credit for being organized. While none of us probably has anything written on our calendars for 2018, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands have already penciled “host the World Cup” on theirs.
The three countries are expected to announce that they are formally applying to host the 2018 tournament in January, a full three years ahead of the deadline for applications. The big winner from all this could be Luxembourg. Can you imagine if they allow all three hosts countries’ teams an automatic spot in the tournament? Luxembourg would be psyched.
Australia, England, Mexico and Spain have all expressed an interest in staging the 2018 World Cup, although Australia is only saying that so they can host the big prize in 2022.
Related Posts
Subscribe
|
Print
|
Share        |
Comments
By Robert | October 17th, 2006 at 6:38 am 
it would be awesome to see theWorld Cup in the Benelux, especially seen the strong history there of the game. How about the finals in Amsterdam?
The Netherlands deserve this; they have contributed so much to the game over the years, think Ajax, Cruyff, Feyenoord, and the 1974/78 national squad in the World Cup, as well as the 1988 team with Van Basten in the European Cup.
Posted from 
United States
By ronnie | November 2nd, 2007 at 8:28 am It really would be awesome to have the worldcup 2018 in the Netherlands!
Now Brazil gets the world cup 2014 Europe is getting a bigger opportunity!!
So come on!!
Posted from 
Netherlands
By FIFA Will Be Seeing a Whole Lot More of David Beckham’s Face in the Future - World Cup Blog | December 6th, 2007 at 6:15 pm [...] Greece, Mexico and a joint triple threat bid from Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg (known as the Benelux bid) will all be [...]
Posted from United States
By Marco | January 21st, 2008 at 3:02 pm ENGLAND should get the world cup in 2018 . its been 40 some years since we last held the world cup
Posted from 
United Kingdom
Comments are closed
