In October 2007, Julio
Grondona, President of the Argentine Football Association,
accepted a proposal from neighboring Uruguay to bid to co-host the 2030 World
Cup. Grondona said in the formal response letter to the Uruguayan football
authorities:"the Argentine Football Association Executive Committee, at
its meeting yesterday, unanimously approved applying for your initiative to
jointly organize the FIFA World Championship 2030. Undoubtedly, to crystallize
this purpose will lead to further deepen the friendly ties that forever bind
the two countries, and hence sports and government officials on both sides of
the Rio
de la Plata will work
together in order to meet the final goal of 2030 World Cup.
In that same month, during a meeting of CONMEBOL (South American Football
Confederation), Uruguay received the support of other South American countries
to co-host the 2030 World Cup football finals with Argentina.
On November 18, 2009, the same day that Uruguay national football team managed to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, FIFA stated that it was
pleased with Uruguay and Argentina's initiative to jointly organize the 2030
World Cup.
A few days later, on November 25, 2009, in a meeting of
presidents of the national associations and members of the Executive Committee
of CONMEBOL, the Argentinian and Uruguayan Football Associations received
unanimous support for the joint bid to host the World Cup 2030.
On June 10, 2010, just a day before the opening of the
2010 World Cup, a special delegation of the Tourism and Sports Ministry of
Uruguay met with Sepp Blatter in Johannesburg, formally proposing the bid of
Uruguay and Argentina as the hosts of the 2030 World Cup.
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