World 2030 in South America: an important holiday for each country and the "no" in Bolivia

For an hour, the president

Mauricio Macri

he is maintained with his Uruguayan counterparts, Tabaré Vázquez; Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez, and Chile, Sebastián Piñera, on the quadripartite candidacy

World 2030

. The meeting was held in Olivos and was a kind of re-launching of the postulation, to which the trans-Andean country was added in February. Also present were the President of Conmebol, Paraguayan

Alejandro Domínguez

, the Secretary General of the Argentine Presidency, Fernando De Andreis, and the representative of Argentina to the Local Organizing Committee (COL), Fernando Marín.

Two conclusions emerged from the conclave: on the one hand, "the incorporation of Bolivia into the quartet of the candidate countries for the organization of the competition is not planned". And the subject was not even discussed, despite the insistence of

Evo Morales

, Bolivian President, to add to his country as a possible subtitle of the event. In addition, it was agreed that the joint initiative of the four nations would be named "Cono Sur Americano 2030". Argentina and Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay must appoint a Local Organizing Committee (LOC) with a representative to work with Conmebol. Macri had already agreed that whoever would badume this function would be Marin. According to the information provided by the Presidency, the first meeting of the four representatives will take place on 8 April at Casa Rosada.

Another problem that had not yet been defined was the distribution of parties. The meeting of yesterday was used to divide them: a country will host the final; another, the inaugural match, and the remaining two will each have a semifinal. It's a way of distributing meetings that will catch the world's attention.

"We know we are facing tough competitors, which is why this work must begin as soon as possible," Macri said, according to statements posted on the presidency's website. Strictly speaking, the seat of the 2030 World Cup will be defined at the FIFA Congress in Doha, Qatar ahead of the 2022 World Cup, more than three years. You may think that the time is far enough to present a proposal bringing together the best of the four countries of South America. But strictly speaking, the differential of this candidacy is to have Uruguay, seat of the first World cup, in 1930, and whose 100 years will be celebrated, precisely, in 2030.

UEFA, which brings together the European countries, has already announced its support for a possible application of the United Kingdom (Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England). The Old Continent, even, could have another candidacy, if that is the plan between Spain and Morocco that is advancing. This country would add African voices, which could give it a World Cup for the first time. The geopolitics of voting (there are 211 countries voting in Congress) make Asia the great voter. But everything could change from one day to the next if China, which brought the last big FIFA sponsor (Wanda), decides to run.

"It is a task that requires intelligence, professionalism and coordination with Conmebol," added the Argentine president. Tabaré Vázquez, for his part, stressed that the work "clearly testifies to the unity and harmony in the organization". "The challenge of organizing this World Cup is much less difficult than it supposed for Uruguay to badume almost 100 years ago. This World Cup, the 1930, was a milestone that will remain in the story. The intention of the South American candidacy is to repeat it. Beyond the presentations and the modernization of the stadiums, the race for votes begins today for them.