About the Moroccan national team – written by Badr Al-Din Al-Idrissi
There are many questions asked by media professionals and analysts, who are spreading like mushrooms on the “talk show” platforms, about the secrets and mysteries of the Moroccan-Spanish-Portuguese tripartite file that has become alone in the race to organize the 2030 World Cup, and I do not imagine that anyone has provided an official answer to them, so they are no more than these. Questions, whether interrogative, denouncing, or even dialectical, may evaporate into the air due to cold air coming out of the closed decision rooms.
Perhaps, like me, you have read a lot of news in the form of bubbles that claim the truth, while they have no basis in reality, because what is being talked about among those involved in decision-making and those entrusted with discussing the steps to be taken on the path to stabilizing the World Cup file, does not reach the media, either because it remains… Either secretly or because it has not been decided finally, and the first of these matters is related to the final map for the 2030 World Cup, the distribution of matches and groups and determining the stadiums and their percentages for each of the three countries allied and united in raising this historic challenge, by making the 2030 World Cup an unprecedented event at all levels. .
Ok, and what is the nature of the meeting that the presidents of the three universities will hold on Saturday in Rabat? What does the letter of intent imposed by FIFA mean, as an important part of the series of steps that any file goes through? No one can deny that the meetings that are taking place between the presidents of the three Moroccan, Spanish and Portuguese universities, of which Rabat will be one of the stops next Saturday, are full of research and discussion about the merits of the tripartite file, with regard to joint obligations to comply with the book of allowances imposed by FIFA, in It is an image of a road map that cannot be departed from, and perhaps the step that usually follows, confirming the nomination to host the 2030 World Cup, is submitting a letter of intent, which is followed by a government commitment to fulfill all the pledges that FIFA imposes on the country or countries nominated to organize the World Cup, and this letter does not necessarily include All the details related to the competition stadiums, sports infrastructure, facilities related to accommodation, and other complex organizing requirements. The evidence for this is that the United States of America, which designed a file to organize the World Cup with the participation of Canada and Mexico, and received a FIFA vote in 2018, did not submit a statement. The final list of cities and stadiums that will host the matches and host the 48 teams will be finalized only in the year 2021, that is, three years after it was voted on as an organization for the World Cup by the FIFA General Assembly, beating Morocco by a difference of 69 votes. Just as the press conference that will follow the signing of the letter of intent can anticipate if agreements occur between the partners in organizing the 2030 World Cup, and provides a preliminary glimpse of what the World Cup map could be as it extends for the first time from the west of the African and European continents to the south of the American continent, it will jump. On this part, which will come later, especially since FIFA’s announcement that the Moroccan, Spanish and Portuguese bids have become the only candidates to host the edition celebrating the first centenary of the World Cup, does not mean at all jumping on the sequence established for the process of assigning the organization to any of the competing countries, as there are inspection committees that will move towards the three countries. There will be many meetings that will be held, and all of these will culminate in the presentation of the file in its final form to the attention of the General Assembly of FIFA, which is authorized, according to the FIFA Constitution, to approve any of the nominations, even if it is alone and uncontested by the end of the year 2024. In view of this objective sequence codified by FIFA, what the Spanish media is adopting about the location of the final match of the 2030 World Cup, as a final, non-negotiable proposal, contains a lot of exaggeration and jumping on events, so what is certain to date is that no decision has been issued regarding the quota of stadiums that will be included in the file, except for the statement. The official statement issued by the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs of Portugal, Ana Caterina Mendes, who said that Portugal will advance three stadiums, namely “Al Noor” and “Allarde” in Lisbon and “El Dragao” in Porto, because they are the only stadiums that meet FIFA standards, and that the Portuguese government is absolutely not thinking about In building new stadiums. Regardless, whether the final will be held at the Jawhara Stadium in Benslimane, which will be, God willing, the second largest stadium in the world, or in Madrid’s masterpiece, the Santiago Bernabeu, the nature of the partnership between the three geographically neighboring countries, which are links between two continents, in organizing the global football event, is greater in scope. His developmental and geopolitical bets are more than a mere controversy fabricated by journalists, with the intention of making this World Cup a masterpiece of beauty and a piece of imagination. The important thing is that we have the intention..
