On Saturday, Brazil’s authorities offered FIFA with agency assurances of its intention to formally submit a bid to host the 2027 Girls’s World Cup. This historic transfer represents Latin America’s first-ever bid to host this prestigious event, which has seen 9 editions up to now.
Brazil’s Sports activities Minister, André Fufuca, and the President of the nation’s soccer governing physique, Ednaldo Rodrigues, personally delivered the mandatory documentation to FIFA President Gianni Infantino. The assembly and doc change befell on the iconic Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, the place additionally they witnessed Fluminense’s victory over Boca Juniors, securing its maiden Copa Libertadores title.
The official doc, signed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, gives FIFA with seven key assurances generally required in such bidding processes. These embody commitments to particular tax exemptions, streamlined work permits, and simplified visa procedures.
Brazil’s Sports activities Ministry issued an announcement affirming, “The Brazilian bid to host the Girls’s World Cup is an element of the present authorities coverage to advertise better participation of girls in soccer.”
Three different bids in competition
Whereas Brazil has beforehand hosted the lads’s World Cup in 1950 and 2014, it has not but hosted the Girls’s World Cup. The bidding course of for the 2027 version of the event has been energetic, with three different bids in competition, together with South Africa’s bid and two joint expressions of curiosity from Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany, in addition to the USA and Mexico. Africa has not but had the chance to host the Girls’s World Cup.
Member associations have been required to submit their bidding agreements by mid-Could, and Brazil met this requirement by submitting its settlement in April. The total bids are anticipated to be introduced by December 8, adopted by on-site inspection visits scheduled for February 2024.
The newest Girls’s World Cup was hosted by Australia and New Zealand in July and August, culminating in Spain’s historic victory as champions. Whereas Brazil boasts 5 males’s World Cup titles, they’ve but to safe a Girls’s World Cup trophy. The event for girls’s soccer started in 1991, with the USA holding the file for essentially the most titles, having gained it 4 instances.