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/ 30 October 2007
Australia are likely to bid to host the 2018 World Cup following Fifa’s decision to scrap its rotation policy. Football Federation Australia chief executive Ben Buckley said Australia was ”very serious” about bidding for the 2018 World Cup now that it was open to countries outside of North America.
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/ 29 October 2007
Fifa’s executive committee is expected to drop its controversial Soccer World Cup rotation policy when it meets at the organisation’s headquarters in Zurich on Monday. World soccer’s governing body decided in 2000 that it would rotate its most prestigious tournament around its six continental confederations.
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/ 12 September 2007
One thousand days before the most popular show on earth rolls into Africa for the first time, the 2010 Soccer World Cup hosts face a mammoth task in organising the extravaganza and silencing party-poopers. Delays to stadium construction, questions over transport and nervousness over safety have left South Africa constantly having to reassure that all will be right.