It’s confirmed. Morocco will join Iberia’s candidacy to host the 2030 World Cup. The announcement was made on Tuesday by Minister Shakib Benmoussa while reading a message from King Mohammed VI during the FIFA Congress taking place these days in Rwanda.
“This joint proposal, unprecedented in the history of football, will unite Africa and Europe, the north and south of the Mediterranean, as well as the African, Arab and Euro-Mediterranean worlds. creativity, experience and means,” said Benmoussa, reading the message of King Mohammed VI.
If this candidacy is chosen, World Cup 2030 will go down in history as the first with an intercontinental organization. Interestingly, with the same possibility, another candidate is put forward, uniting Greece, Egypt and Saudi Arabia – in this case, these are 3 continents. The only one that unites only countries from one confederation is the South American one, which includes Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Paraguay.