The 2030 Football World Cup will be held across six countires in three different continents, fifa has confirmed. The decision is set to be ratified at a Fifa Congress next year with spain, portugal and morocco as the co hosts. But the opening round of matches will be played in uruguay, argentina and paraguay. Thats to mark the world cup s centenary, as itll be 100 years since the first tournament in montevideho. Our Sports Editor says fifa are bound to face questions about the impact on the environment. Youre going to have the prospect of the teams perhaps from europe Flying Thousands of miles to South America for just one thousands of miles to South America forjust one match before flying all the way back again across the atlantic, back to europe for the remainder of their tournaments. I think the optics of that are unhelpful and certainly according to many environmental campaigners has been condemnation already this evening. The supported groups who say that it sets the wrong example
On the same day the uk and Republic Of Ireland will now bid unopposed for euro 2028, unopposed for euro 2028, after turkey withdrew to focus on a joint bid with italy for euro 32. Turkey agreed to merge their bid with italy injuly and that has now been approved by uefa. In april, 10 venues were selected for the uk and ireland bid, including glasgows hampden park, cardiffs principality stadium, dublins Aviva Stadium and wembley in london. Uefa will award the hosting of Two European Championships next tuesday. Liverpool Managerjurgen Klopp wants their Premier League game against tottenham to be replayed after luis diazs goal was wrongly disallowed by the video assistant referee. The var team failed to overrule the decision when diaz was flagged offside when the game was still goalless. The referees body, the pgmol, released the audio of discussions between the match officials as they made the decision and when they realised the mistake that had been made. Liverpool went on to lose 2 1. N
hello, welcome to the daily global, where we ll bring you the top stories from around the world. israel has confirmed it hit the jabalia refugee camp in northern gaza. it says it was targeting and killed one of the hamas leaders responsible for 7th october attacks. the hamas run gazan health ministry says at least 50 people were killed and hundreds injured. images from the scene show people trying to resuce others trapped under the rubble. before the war, the camp, made up of high rise buildings, was home to more than 100,000, many of whom have been there for generations since the formation of the state of israel in 1948. bbc verify have located the exact position of the blast which you can see here you can see how built up it is. more now from our international editor, jeremy bowen. and a warning, his report contains images some may find distressing. the attack onjabalia camp looks to be one of the biggest single palestinian losses of life so far in this war. jabalia is in t
Ago they called in senator mitchell and ken dubestein to investigate where they had gone wrong with the ioc and make recommendations. External respected, nonpartisan investigation. This committee to help u. S. Soccer set up a similar independent committee to find out what on earth has gone so badly wrong and it being covered up. Also u. S. Soccer could do what your government does, which is put everything online. The forms are inadequate. And then renew, reorganize and reinvigorated soccer could say to the world this is how it does. We are not in america pushing around but we can do it. It is all wide open. Join with us and the 209 National Associations would come with you finishing. Next monday, the absent mr. Gillaspie, who i think is treating you with contempt and the u. S. People of soblger, the men and women and the whole sport with context when he cant come here and defend the u. S. Soccer activities in concocaf and fifa. So hes going over to zurich next week with a private meeti
Concerns. It would be hard to pinpoint. Theres generalities and theyre related to the point in which they ran their meetings and how i think u. S. Soccer would be like to have a greater influence but being one of 35 voting nations and mind you mr. Warner came from the caribbean and 25 of those 35 votes are from the caribbean. It gave me a level of discomfort that we werent going to make progress in terms of transparency and some things i would have preferred as to how u. S. Soccer operates. Did you express those concerns to mr. Blazer . I did not. Any reason you might not have confronted him or asked why hes doing what hes doing . Generally speaking we have the potential to opt out and with mr. Blazer i just felt we had other things to do that could help build our sport as well and there was some concern that if i brought it to mr. Blazers attention i may feel a level of discomfort in other ways. Did you see peers feel discomfort in other ways in order to confront mr. Blazer . It would