Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Romania consider joint 2030 World Cup bid

[Mingle]

Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Romania are mulling a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup, officials from the quartet said on Friday.

They are also considering putting themselves forward for the European football championships two years later.

If the foursome decide to make a 2030 pitch they will go up against joint bids from Uruguay- Argentina-Paraguay and Algeria-Morocco-Tunisia. England is considering a bid alongside Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

No Balkan nation has hosted the World Cup while the former Yugoslavia, which broke up in 1991, hosted the four-country European Championships in 1976.

"I think it is worth discussing the proposal of (Greek Prime Minister Alexis) Tsipras," Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov told a news conference during a summit between Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Serbia in the Black Sea city of Varna.

World governing body FIFA are not expected to vote to decide the 2030 hosts before 2022, when the World Cup is headed to Qatar.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said the Balkan quartet will also bid to host the European championship in 2028, adding it would give them a chance to improve their stadiums and sports infrastructure.

A Bulgarian government spokeswoman confirmed that a joint bid to host the tournament in 2028 has been discussed.

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https://www.euronews.com/2018/11/02/...-world-cup-bid

[Ülev]

Daco-Thracian World Cup

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Recipe for a total disaster in my opinion.

[Mingle]

Recipe for a total disaster in my opinion.

Why is that?

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Why is that?

None of these countries has the infrastructure needed to host the World Cup, with the exception of Greece because they have a developed department of tourism. The economic situation in all those four countries isn't the best to invest hundreds of millions in stadiums that will be empty and give monetary loss in the years to come after the World Cup. Portugal has a stronger football tradition than most of these nations and yet half of the stadiums we built for the Euro 2004 are a burden to the economy, so I can imagine what would happen in there.

[Livin]

Poor countries cant handle this....

[щрбл]

That would be a disaster... needless to say that public money will be stolen for the most part and the remaining crumbs will be spent on retarded projects, the management of which will be distributed among the usual mafia players.

So... thank you but no thank you. And have a nice day!

[Dick]

They’re already building a new stadium in Belgrade for it

[catgeorge]

Anything that comes out of Tsipras mouth run to the other direction.

[Damião de Góis]

I don't see any problems. UEFA would make sure they were ready and the stadiums were finished.
The important thing here is that the wold cup is played in Europe, because i would like to watch it on normal hours.