Finally a day of full drama,suspense,enticing or whatever you want to say has come to an end with a slight delay too that prove how close the battle was for the rights to host the world cup.Even before the results came out i had rumors that Qatar was going home,Australia had in the bag and etc so yeah it was really a suspense for me watching...
And after somewhere around an hour watching the highlights of the bidding countries the results were finally announced and the winners to host were....RUSSIA FOR 2018 AND SURPRISINGLY QATAR FOR 2022!!!!....Congratulations to them and hopefully they will keep to their word and make this a great world cup for the coming generation of players.To be honest,I was quite sad that England didn't get it after looking at that great glowing evaluation given to the Mother land of the sports and all the criteria being met but oh well like what Blatter said in his speech 'For the losers,go home and say 'what a pity' but go home with pride because football is not only about winning but also learning that we also have to lose in life' Well something like that haha...
For those who didn't really follow the bidding,The 2018 world cup had 4 bids with England,Russia,Portugal/Russia and Netherlands/Belgium...While the 2022 looked set to go to Asia as there were 4 countries that were Asians and only one being from another continent which is USA...Australia though is their own continent but football is represented in Asia...The bidders were Qatar,South Korea,Australia,Japan And USA
2018 world cup host Winner: Russia
Bidders:Russia,England,Spain/Portugal,Netherlands/Belgium
2022 World cup host Winner:Qatar
Bidders:USA,Korea,Japan,Australia,Qatar
HEADS UP!!!!!...Watch out for all the bidders presentations highlights....I will post them out really soon so check it them out :)...All of them honestly were good!
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