Plus, just how much prize money will be on the line by 2027
The United States and Mexico announced their bid on April 19 just before the kickoff of an international friendly between the U.S. men’s national team and Mexico’s men’s team.
Along with Canada, both countries will host the 2026 men’s World Cup — combining for seven women’s and men’s tournaments across the two boarding nations. “We haven’t hosted a World Cup for 24 years,” USSF president Cindy Parlow Cone said on HBO Max’s pregame show. “To bring it back and to have ‘26 followed by ‘27, I think speaks great to our region and trying to grow our region. I know we have CONCACAF behind us.” This bid was nearly three years in the making. The trio of countries was the first to formally submit bid interest a day after FIFA opened the application process on March 23.
Bid books are usually very lengthy reading. Australia/New Zealand’s bid book for 2023 was 188 pages long. Generally, though, the more advanced work done, the stronger the bid. Oh, and there’s also a load of assurances from the government that bids have to provide to FIFA, including a declaration from “the head of the highest national executive government authority.”FIFA breaks down its evaluation of bids into three parts. There’s more of a qualitative assessment of the vision of the bid , and then far more formal risk and technical evaluations. Everything with a risk assessment is put on a scale of low, medium and high. Obviously, a bid is hoping for all low risk.
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