Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay launch World Cup 2030 bid
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Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay on Tuesday officially launched their joint bid to stage the FIFA World Cup tournament in 2030, exactly 100 years after the event was first held in South America.
"We are convinced that FIFA has an obligation to honor the memory of those who organized the first World Cup," said Alejandro Domínguez, president of CONMEBOL, South American football's governing body, in Buenos Aires.
Competition is intensifying before FIFA chooses a host in 2024. The so-called Mundial Centenario, or Centennial World Cup project faces a packed field in the bid for hosting rights.
The South Americans' main challenge is a joint bid from Spain, Portugal and Ukraine, which has the backing of European football's governing body UEFA.
Saudi Arabia is also considering bidding for the right to stage the tournament, lining up an ambitious bid with Egypt and Greece.
While three of the four countries (except Paraguay) have previously hosted a World Cup, none have done so since Argentina in 1978.
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Argentine Tourism and Sports Minister Matías Lammens (fourth from right, with beard) joins counterparts and football officials from Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay to present the Southern Cone 2030 World Cup bid.
The bid - which, if chosen in 2024, would be the first to include four nations - was presented "to honor the memory of those who organized the first World Cup" in 1930, which was held in Uruguay.
The four-nation group, home to 76 million people between them, faces stiff competition from a Spain/Portugal bid which added Ukraine at the last minute.
