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Originally Posted by Galaxy
What is the future of the World Cup? Germany hosts it next year, and South Africa in 2010. How is that bidding process up for the few competition tournaments after 2010?
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After the debacle in 2000 (for the 2006 Cup) where South Africa lost to Germany by a single vote after Oceania's rep abstained rather than vote for South Africa (resulting in a 12-11 win for Germany...the tie would've given the FIFA President a vote and he said he'd vote for South Africa) they decided to go with a rotational policy for each continent.
So in 2014, South America will get the World Cup. All the bids will come from there and they'll choose one.
2018 is obviously a ways off (they're not even starting the bidding process for 2014 until next year) but no one what continent will even get the games yet.