World Cup 2018 - Russia - World Cup - Russia to host 2018 World Cup

La candidatura rusa superó a la de España-Portugal e Inglaterra. El anuncio fue hecho por Joseph Blatter en Zúrich.

Russia have beaten England in the fight to host the 2018 World Cup.

England and Russia plus two joint bids from Netherlands/Belgium and Spain/Portugal were contesting the 2018 decision.

The announcement of the winning bid was made by FIFA president Sepp Blatter at Zurich's Messezentrum.

The 22 men on FIFA's executive committee heard half-hour presentations from each of the four competing European bids this morning.

Russia presented itself as a huge nation which had never before staged the World Cup, contrasting it with western Europe where all the major nations have staged the event.

Alexei Sorokin, the Russian bid's CEO, began by quoting Winston Churchill's famous description of Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."

He said: "We can understand this perception that foreigners have but it's a Russia...that no longer exists."

England may have suffered from a backlash against corruption investigations into FIFA members by BBC Panorama and the Sunday Times over the last two months. These investigations were criticised both by Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin and Spain/Portugal bid president Angel Villar Llona in his presentation to fellow FIFA members on Thursday.

Six FIFA officials were last month suspended following a Sunday Times investigations and on Monday, BBC Panorama claimed three other FIFA members had taken bribes in the 1990s.

The defeat comes despite an impressive presentation by England that was described by Blatter as "excellent and remarkable".

Prince William, David Cameron and David Beckham all sparkled but were all outshone by 27-year-old Eddie Afekafe, who works on Manchester City's community programmes.
Rusia organizará el Mundial de fútbol del 2018, informó este jueves el presidente de la FIFA, Joseph Blatter.

Rusia se quedó con la sede del torneo al superar las candidaturas de Inglaterra y las conjuntas de España-Portugal y Holanda-Bélgica.

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[voon100]

Congratulation to Russia!!

I'm laughing with happiness that England didn't won! GOOD!

[alexalexlive]

@ELDELPUEBLU It's because most of you americans give's a fuc* about football (Yes it's is football NOT SOCCER !! ^^)

[MexicoSuper2010]

MEXICO 2026 

[victor050196]

comprado



[eldar600]

lol abromivich face is priceless , lol like he had no idea that russia would win bid . come on guys , i am glad it will be in russia but man FiFA is corrupt and Russia paid for that bid.

[RandomViper39]

@voon100 It'd be even better if you could spell it was "win", not "won" :)

[resilienceman]

@voon100 I'm English and Spain should have got the chance to host it as they are the holders it's so obvious in Russia the World Cups gonna be shit but that's one thing we can say we would hold a better display over here if we did get it than Russia as their economy is gonna go under anyway so at least we've got that.

[NorthWeezy2010]

roman ambromovich? whats he doing there? hes an oil baron...oh yeahhh i get it now. because he has money to burn

[NorthWeezy2010]

@voon100 Russia bribed them. congratulations, russia won by cheating as per usual.

[MrDimitri2826]

@Joricky12 the only exception I think of a winner not giving credit to the hosts of the world cup would be Brazil in 1950. Even though Uruguay had beaten Brazil in their own backyard to win the world cup the world cup final for the Uruguayans was very hostile. And that's because Uruguay and Brazil are bitter rivals in football.