FIFA has awarded Russia the right to host the 2018 World Cup finals after the country’s bid got the most votes from 22 dealing out members of FIFA in a unsigned ballot held in Zurich.
Spain-Portugal, Holland-Belgium and England were the three supplement bids in the fray. The selection process operational merged rounds of voting, forward the country receiving the fewest votes eliminated in each round.
As many as 15 bids were customary from countries aspiring to host the 2018 involve, and Russia won an outright majority of 13 votes, in the second circular of voting, after garnering nine in the first. The Spain-Portugal joint bid traditional seven votes.
The tournament in Russia will span 13 cities, all in the country’s European region, in a bid to support easier entry. In its bid Russia promised to scrap visas during the 2018 tournament and this is seen as a major factor in the vote in the country’s favour.
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The ballot in Zurich with agreed the host of the 2022 tournament, which was awarded to Qatar. The oil-adeptly-to-get your hands on Middle-Eastern country won neighboring to enemy bids from the United States, Japan and South Korea, in the unqualified round of voting. Australia which had as well as bid for the 2022 World Cup was ousted in the first round of voting.
Mexico which had earlier bid to host the 2022 tournament withdrew its bid citing financial reasons.
Neither Russia nor Qatar has hosted the event serve on. The awarding of the tournaments to these two countries has brought an fall to a controversial voting process as soon as allegations of corruption that led to the suspension of two meting out committee members.
