King Mohamed VI announced Tuesday Morocco's joint bid, with Spain and Portugal, to host the 2030 World Cup.

World Cup 2030: Mohammed VI announces Morocco's bid, together with Spain and Portugal

King Mohammed VI announced Tuesday Morocco's joint bid, with Spain and Portugal, to host the 2030 World Cup. "I announce before your assembly that the Kingdom of Morocco has decided, together with Spain and Portugal, to submit a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup," King Mohammed VI said in a message on the occasion of the presentation of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Excellence Award for 2022 (CAF President's Outstanding Achievement Award-2022), awarded to the monarch in Kigali, Rwanda.
 
This common candidacy, unprecedented in the history of soccer, will be that of the union between Africa and Europe, between the North and the South of the Mediterranean, and between the African, Arab and Euro-Mediterranean worlds, said King Mohammed VI in this message, which was read by the Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports, Chakib Benmoussa.
 
The Moroccan monarch also specified that this bid will be that of bringing together the best from both sides, and the demonstration of an alliance of genius, creativity, experience and means.
 
The project of a joint bid for the World Cup, between Morocco, Spain and Portugal, was put on the table again, with Morocco on the way to replace Ukraine because of the sanction imposed on the president of its federation.
 
The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the Portuguese Football Federation were seriously working on this option.
 
This option has been studied "exhaustively in the coming days and weeks", but its realization seemed to depend on Ukraine's withdrawal from the joint bid of Spain and Portugal, the same source indicated.
 
Ukraine's participation in this bid was announced last October. It is currently on hold due to the alleged corruption case hanging over the Ukrainian Football Federation (UFA) and its president Andriy Pavelko. Therefore, the country at war was officially replaced by Morocco.

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