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Tomorrow morning the FIFA World Cup 2018 and 2022 host nations will be announced.

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Tomorrow morning the FIFA World Cup 2018 and 2022 host nations will be announced.

For 2022, the contenders are Australia, Japan, Qatar, South Korea and the USA.

”If Australia hosts the World Cup, Australia changes forever as a nation and for the better,” former Socceroo and FOX Sports commentator Andy Harper tells The Age. ”For a long time now we’ve had to engage with the world on their terms; you can’t do it well unless you’re engaged with the most common currency and that is football.”

An Australian World Cup would be played in 12 stadiums in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Geelong, Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Townsville. Three new stadiums would be built in Western Sydney, Townsville and Canberra and nine refurbished at a total cost of $2.3 billion.

Australia’s strategy has been to build support capable of surviving the opening stages of a contest in which the lowest vote-getter is eliminated after each round. While Australia will not have as many first-round votes as Qatar, it hopes to pick up the second preferences of voters as first Japan and then hopefully South Korea are eliminated. Twelve votes are needed to win.

Coverage of the announcement takes place at 2am AEDT Friday and can be seen on the following channels:

Friday December 3rd:
1:00am FOX Sports
1:30am ABC New 24
1:45am ONE HD
1:45am BBC World News
1:55am SBS ONE
2:00am SKY News

Source: The Age

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  3. While I agree that USA prob have a better chance than us, it won’t be because of supposed time-zone issues. The 2002 World Cup was held jointly between Korea and Japan. Both countries are at GMT +9:00, which is exactly halfway between that of Perth and Sydney.

  5. I agree with some of the comments, that this is largely a waste of all of
    Lowy’s money (if he paid for it all, which I doubt), with Australia having little chance of winning.

    It’s correct soccer in India and China has to increase a lot more in popularity and that Aus time zones doesn’t work with the northern hemisphere’s. Other than SBS and Foxtel (where most of the more decent soccer can be seen for a price), the Aus media feigns interest in soccer, but in reality doesn’t really care less for it.

  6. @Elbogrease great work there buddy, no interest in the thing but you took the time to comment showing you have some interest, there’s a word for that oh yeah hypocrisy.

  7. Find it intriguing Seven, Nine and Ten news divisions wont bother to make an effort to cover in the early hours.
    Great chance for one of them to get a jump over the other commercial nets.

  8. @JeZZa. i like your optimism

    i just looked at the video. gee it was terrible. why would they put a cartoon character of a kangaroo in the clip. the americans bid video had some substance to it.

  9. I hope and pray it is us because i know i want this. However i feel we will luck out to Qatar or the US.

    England has a stranglehold on the 2018 bid so i don’t see any other nation getting that one but because of the Media stuff and all those revelations i just have this sick feeling Australia will miss out on the best sporting competition outside the Olympics. It would be such a shame too.

  10. Haters gotta hate…
    Bring it on i say.

    It’s about time this country dragged itself onto the world map & into the 21st century.
    The rest of the world may actually start to take us seriously, in spite of the those who would rather Australia stay as isolated as possible in the dark ages.

    Australia needs the World Cup. It’s time to finish what the Olympics started.

    To those who say Australia has no interest in Soccer… On the gold coast alone there was over 6000 games played between march & october this year from junior thru to senior leagues, not including school or A-League matches.
    It is the most played sport in schools, & in 12 years when these kids are adults it will be them taking their familys to the world cup. Not the current generation of “Typical Australians” who “aparently” only seem to love AFL or NRL.

  12. If we can pull this off, this would be incredible. For those who don’t follow the sport, nothing I write will change your opinion and your entitled to have it but please don’t speak on behalf of everyone when doing so. Let us who do enjoy watching football in peace. It doesn’t matter the sport – like it or loathe it – as an Australian, you should always back your country. Go Aussies!

  19. Looks like the USA by a mile.
    .
    We’re just in the wrong time zone for a Europe/US TV audience.
    Once China and India are the major global markets for audiences (2030s) then we’ll start landing a lot of these events… but not yet.

  24. After watching the bids, i think our chances fell quite a lot. Lowy was nervous and fumbled his lines. Elle Macpherson was just embarrassing. And the video with the kangaroo was cheap and dodgy. Not inspiring at all. FFA could have just blown it with that.

    The US bid looked amazing though. I don’t think Korea or Japan have any chance. Korea’s pitch was a bout peace through football which is ironic considering they’re about to launch into WWIII. And Qatar. Well corrupt votes could get them over the line because they have plenty of cash. But they have a host city with a population of 11,000, they need to build majority of the stadiums, and 40 degree heat isn’t good so it would be idiotic to give it to them.

    Us or the USA. Judging on the final bids, the USA should get it sadly. Really disappointed with the FFA, but it’s typical of them.

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