Russian Football Union (RFU) has sent an official bid for the right to host either the 2018 or the 2022 World Cup to the worlds ruling football body FIFA, local media reported Friday. "We are still in the race. Today the RFU has sent an official bid to FIFA," the RFU general manager Alexei Sorokin told the press. "They would likely receive it on March 16."
Earlier this year FIFA has invited countries to express interest, by February 2, in hosting the World Cup in either or both 2018 and 2022. It will choose the hosts of both tournaments in December 2010. Australia, China, England, Indonesia, Mexico, Qatar and Japan are also among the countries that expressed their interest in bidding for the World Cup. Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as Portugal and Spain, are considering joint bids.
FIFA requires a World Cup host to have about 12 stadiums with more than 40,000 seats each, one of them with more than 80,000 seats. African countries are precluded from bidding for the 2018 tournament as the next World Cup, in 2010, will be staged in South Africa.
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