Aleksander Ceferin in favour of British bid for 2030 World Cup
Saturday 3 June 2017 11:04, UK
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin would welcome a British bid to host the 2030 World Cup.
Ceferin said earlier in the week that "Europe's turn" to host the tournament should come in 13 years, following the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and a widely-tipped 2026 event in North America.
He told the BBC on Saturday that he would back a bid from Britain, with the World Cup having not been hosted there since England's victorious 1966 tournament.
"For me, they are absolutely capable of organising it from an organisational point of view, from an infrastructure point of view," Ceferin said.
"But of course it's a decision not just for the FA, probably the Government and all the others too.
"But you know everything about English or British football, so they deserve to have a World Cup in the near future.
"I don't know how much encouragement they need, but they are capable of organising the World Cup, I'm sure. That's the decision of the Football Association and if they decide to go, we will strongly support them.
"They will have all our political support. I just hope we will not have two European bidders, because that would not be good.
"I think the ideal situation would be to have one European bidder, and then all of Europe stands together and we can achieve it."
