Alejandro Domínguez, president of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) did not want to waste time in his meeting with his FIFA counterpart, Gianni Infantino, and urged him to “find a way together” to allow the World Cup to 2030 takes place in South America.
Both the president of South American football and international football coincided at the 76th Ordinary Congress of Conmebol, held in the Paraguayan city of Luque, where they took the opportunity to talk about the 2030 World Cup in which the 100th anniversary will also be held. years of this tournament that began in Uruguay.
Domínguez asked him to “celebrate 100 years of the world” as a tribute to the first World Cup in history, letting it be known that this edition will have a little more importance for South America. “This is not the 2030 Cup, this is the Centennial Cup,” he said in his speech at the start of the Ordinary Congress.
Likewise, the president of Conmebol affirmed that the South American candidacy, shared by Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Paraguay for the 2030 World Cup, will honor the “memory” and “history” of this sport. “We are preparing and we are going to be ready,” he pointed out.
In said event, the president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Claudio Tapia, was also decorated for his “management” at the head of the governing body of football in his country. “This is recognition from your peers for your management. At the request of the Council, we want to give you this award, which you have more than deserved”, said Domínguez.
For his part, Infantino, who arrived in Paraguay this Thursday to be present at the Congress, thanked Domínguez for his words and greeted all the sports leaders present at the Conmebol Convention Center, including the executive president of the FIFA Foundation and former Argentine president Mauricio Macri.
Congress is the highest instance of Conmebol and meets ordinarily every two years to consider the report and the general balance of the past year, the budget of expenses and resources for the following year, matters included by the executive committee in the agenda , the report of the finance commission and the representatives of the Confederation before FIFA.
With information from EFE.
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