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2034 World Cup: Saudi Arabia set to host after Australia does

WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury attracted criticism for praising Saudi officials external-link and Bin Salman before his victory over former UFC fighter Francis Ngannou in Riyadh last weekend. Morocco, Portugal and Spain’s combined bid has been selected as the sole candidate to host the World Cup in 2030. Small format soft cover football annual - vg clean firm interior with no markings or inscriptions, pages toned to closed-edge; near fine bright firm cover. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) completed a takeover of Newcastle United in 2021, and manager Eddie Howe said: "Our trips out there to Riyadh and Jeddah were two very different experiences. Human rights campaigners say sport is being used by the Saudi government to detract from long-standing reputation issues, a process known as 'sportswashing'.The launch of the lucrative LIV Golf series in 2022 led to the PGA Tour and DP World Tour agreeing to merge with PIF in June after a year of disruption, with PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan appointed chair of the unified men's game. Find the latest episode of your favourite podcast or discover something a little more different by visiting BBC Sounds' sport podcast listings page. Australia's governing body Football Australia says it intends to focus its efforts on hosting the Women's Asian Cup in 2026 and the Club World Cup in 2029.

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With the government partnerships – not to mention a potential Asian co-host – requiring a much greater timespan, Football Australia bowed to the inevitable on Monday and declared itself out of the running. Fernando Diniz is not just trying to win the Copa Libertadores with Fluminense, he is showing the world that there is another way to play football.Ajax are fined and will have part of their ground closed for their Eredivisie match against Vitesse Arnhem after crowd trouble marred September's defeat to Feyenoord. Manchester United defender Jonny Evans has blamed his team's dismal form on a rash of injuries after their troubled season hit a new low with Sunday's derby disaster against Manchester City. The speed at which Fifa has appeased key allies in federations across the globe to put Saudi in the box seat for 2034 has taken the football world by surprise, not least Australia. England trailblazer Frank Soo will inducted into Stoke-on-Trent's Sporting Hall of Fame ahead of this weekend's 90th anniversary of his Stoke City debut.

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Jamie McGrath hit a double as a 4-2 victory at Motherwell gave Aberdeen a much-needed morale boost ahead of the Viaplay Cup semi-finals. It said: "Human rights commitments must be agreed with potential hosts before final decisions on holding the tournaments are made. Qatar's hosting of the 2022 World Cup drew criticism because of its stance on same-sex relationships, its human rights record and its treatment of migrant workers. Infantino ensured a clear run for the Asian confederation – and, by extension, Saudi – at 2034 by structuring the 2030 finals across three confederations – Europe, Africa and South America. Johnson said that Australia would back Saudi as a fellow Asian Football Confederation member providing no further bids emerged before the deadline.The country that missed out to Qatar for the 2022 finals, in the crooked Fifa vote of 2010, was told this month that interested nations had just 25 days to declare an interest.

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This dialogue will focus on the defined priority areas of the event vision and key metrics, infrastructure, services, commercial, and sustainability and human rights. Following the withdrawal of News of the World as sponsors, the Nationwide Building Society emerged to provide new sponsorship in 2008. Fifa dropped plans for Saudi Arabia to sponsor the 2023 Women's World Cup following a backlash from co-hosts Australia and New Zealand, players and sponsors, but Saudi Arabia is keen to host the 2035 tournament after forming a women's team last year. He also said hosting tournament would be offer an "open invitation to the world to experience our rich football culture". Paul Merson fears Erik ten Hag has lost the Manchester United dressing room after Newcastle dumped his side out of the Carabao Cup at Old Trafford.Chelsea secured their passage into the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup as they beat Blackburn Rovers 2-0 at Stamford Bridge. The Nationwide Football Annual is a compact British football reference book which is produced at the start of each football season. Everton cruised into the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup with James Tarkowski, Amadou Onana and Ashley Young all on target in a routine 3-0 victory over Burnley. Like the older publication, it initially aimed to provided coverage of all football codes popular in England, including rugby football (both rugby union and rugby league after the codes split) in addition to association football.