FIFA map out 2018 World Cup host plans

No it's not too soon. A USA - Canada joint venture? We have excellent facilities in both Countries. I would still like to see Russia staging it

What about Australia...far best infrastructure in the world. Australian Stadiums...you have to see to believe and not even mentioned by FIFA, so much for development of Football...I don't think so.

wogy41, yes! Why not Australia? good point! I'm all for it! I do have relatives in Australia, Do you have at least 10 stadia with capacity of over 30,000 spectators? I believe that's one of FIFA's requirements.

Australia does not have enough big stadia for association football mainly because it has not been the top spectator sport here - it has a lot of big cricket and Australian rules stadia that can hold well over 30,000 fans but the pitch for these games is oval shaped and occupies a lot bigger space which means the fans in the stands are not close to the pitch - this is a serious loss of atmosphere - the mighty sound of fans is lost to the air and the gaps look awful on television as well. There are some soccer pitches big enough but many main cities are lacking - eg Adelaide in the South biggest soccer standium only holds 15,000 fans - Australia with the help of rich private companies (such as the mining companies that must reap in billions in export) and the governments (both national and states) probably has the financial clout to build the necessary stadium and the game has big enough following in places like Adelaide to warrant having a bigger world class stadium. However my personal opinion is that if 2010 and 2014 are outside Europe then it is Europes turn again. Especially since modern day Brazil seem to capture all the world cups outside of Europe! Not many people would bet against them at home in 2014 (although they did get beaten there once before I believe. England is the natural host - the world cup is due to come back to the designers of the modern game after a gap of by then 52 years. Australia could be natural host for 2022 when the game is due to be played outside Europe.