It’s official: the AFA applied to organize the Under 20 World Cup after Indonesia’s withdrawal

Argentina is a candidate to organize the Sub 20 world. The ecumenical competition was to be played in Indonesia from May 20 nextbut FIFA took away the headquarters of the Asian country for “extra-football reasons”. Gianni Infantino, the top leader of world soccer, gave a press conference together with Alejandro Domínguez, president of Conmebol, and confirmed the Argentine nomination. “I have here the letters from President Claudio Tapia, the Minister of Sports (Matías Lammens) and also the Minister of Economy to support and give all the necessary guarantees to this candidacy,” said Infantino in Luque, where the Conmebol headquarters are located. . In the current scenario, Argentina is the only applicant that presented all the papers. The tournament maintains the dates and the six venues, which must be defined by the AFA once the organization is confirmed.

“Argentina, world champion country, has a very strong candidacy. Now, the steps that follow for this Sub 20 World Cup imply a decision very soon, in the next few days. This request will be forwarded to the FIFA Bureau, which will make the decision about who will host this World Cup. But now I would like to thank President Tapia and all of Argentina, and his government”, Infantino completed.

“Gianni already knows that he has my vote for Argentina,” joked Alejandro Domínguez, the Paraguayan leader who chairs Conmebol and who met Infantino this morning in his office. And he added: “Argentina has potential because it proposed. Remember that it is an emergency measure. No one foresaw that Indonesia was going to stop hosting. You have to have everything ready. And I think that in that sense, Argentina has everything ready to host the World Cup with this urgency. With more time, more countries would have wanted to participate. The power that Argentina has is that it is ready for any competition that is needed. The AFA and Claudio Tapia feel in a position to carry out the challenge in a very short term and that it comes out at the level that FIFA is used to”.

The Bureau of FIFA is the small table of world football. It is made up of the six presidents of the continental confederations plus the president of the entity, Gianni Infantino. The most important decisions, which do not need to go through either Congress or the Council, are taken in this body. In this case, the haste of organizing the World Cup means that this select group of leaders is in charge of deciding the venue. Argentina sent the official letters to organize the tournament and seems to be the main candidate. Obtaining the third star in Qatar 2022 and the fever for the team among Argentine fans also contributes. As an extra prize, the selected albiceleste of the category would win a classification to the ecumenical tournament in the desks: he had failed in the South American played at the beginning of the year in Colombia.

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