Fed: Australia to bid for two prized world football
Australia will bid to host the world's biggest sporting event -- the soccer World Cup -- in 2014
And there'll also be a bid for another of international soccer's prized events -- the2007 Confederations Cup.
The bid is being spearheaded by the state governments of New South Wales and Victoria.
SEPP BLATTER, the president of soccer's world governing body FIFA, will join statepremiers BOB CARR and STEVE BRACKS to announce the bid tomorrow.
Mr CARR says Sydney's performance as host of the Olympics shows Australia has the capacityto host the soccer world cup.
He says that with eight to 10 venues required to stage the tournament, there will beopportunities for the ACT, Western Australia and South Australia to host matches.
And Mr BRACKS says officials are already at work on the FIFA World Cup bid -- as wellas the one for the Confederations Cup, a tournament between the champions of the world's
soccer confederations.
The FIFA World Cup is held every four years -- with the next one to be hosted by Germany in 2006.
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KEYWORD: SOCCER WORLD AUST (SYDNEY)
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