The federations of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay meet in Ezeiza in the first general assembly of the candidacy promoted by Conmebol. In this context, Alexandra Benado, Minister of Sport, shed light on our country’s plans to ensure the success of the organization that intends to commemorate 100 years of the World Cup.
South America began its campaign a long time ago to stay with the organization of the 2030 World Cup, where it intends to bring together Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Paraguay as venues for the planetary contest that will celebrate its centenary that year. To define the roles of each country, this Tuesday a meeting of the Together 2030 Corporationwhich will also give formal start to the candidacy.
in the instance the entity’s general secretariat must be definedthat contemplates our country to assume this task with the appointment of the Chilean Michael Boys as executive secretary. According to the newspaper La Tercera, the idea of the candidacies is to take advantage of the strengths of each participant and highlight the national capacity to provide a structured work scheme which has been reflected in the organization of events such as the last Copa América or the Pan American Games in Santiago 2023.
Sources confessed to the morning paper is that Chile’s economic stability allows it to have a greater capacity to obtain financing through credit. However, there is a great lack of infrastructure.
The Monumental and a new stadium appear
At the moment, The country does not have a stadium that can host a World Cup semifinal. Neither Monumental nor Nacional meet the minimum conditions required by FIFA to host this type of match, especially due to lack of capacity.
To do this, the government has decided to promote the construction of a new sports venue with the idea of keeping at least one duel of the four best in the competition. “Every day that progress is made in the bid for the 2030 World Cup is one more step for the construction of a new sports venue. Without a doubt, it must comply with FIFA access standards for this type of event, which It will mean having a venue for 60,000 people”, warned Alexandra Benado, Minister of Sport to La Tercera.
“Undoubtedly, as a country we deserve to have decisive phase matches for what we want to be our World Cup. Today we have venues that could host matches in the group, round of 16 and quarter stages, but without a doubt we want decisive World Cup matches to be played in Chile,” he added.
Although she did not reveal the location of this ambitious project, the Secretary of State announced that the idea is that this “initiative that will put us in the front line as a venue for World Championships, Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American, South American Gamesetc”.
It should be remembered that the Estadio Monumental is considered one of the venues that will host some of the 2030 World Cup matches. Despite the confidence of the South Americans, the competition does not look easy considering the powerful candidacies they launched together Spain-Portugaland Greece-Saudi Arabia-Egypt.
