Spain in 2010, Italy in 2006, Brazil in 2002, France in 1998 and finally 1994 where the US was the host and Brazil emerged champions. The world cup is every 4 years and to see one on our own turf would be a dream come true to many young American soccer fans.
There are rules for a country to qualify for a chance to host a world cup. One rule is that the country needs to meet the conditions and regulations of FIFA. (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) Luckily the US does meet the conditions. Some fun facts about the US are that they finished third in the world cup of 1930. This year they were eliminated by Ghana during the 16th round in South Africa.
The US has active bids for the World Cup 2018, and 2022 and they will be competing against different countries such as England, Russia, Belgium and the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. These last 4 are bids for only 2022: Australia, Japan, Qatar and South Korea. One major advantage we might have is that President Obama wrote a letter to the President of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, in support of the US bid, and later they met up on July of 2009.
All we could do now is hope that a World Cup is held either on 2018 or 2022 on our turf. May our dream come true.
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