Safa now has to put words into action for 2023 World Cup
Fifa invites bids for hosting the next women's World Cup
Fifa has opened the bidding for the 2023 women’s World Cup‚ which means the SA Football Association (Safa) now has to put words into action. Safa boss Danny Jordaan two months ago said the country wanted to host the tournament in the wake of Banyana Banyana’s qualification for the 2019 finals in France. “In 1994 the US hosted the men’s World Cup and they hosted the women’s World Cup in 1999‚” said Jordaan then. “In 2006 Germany hosted the men’s World Cup and in 2011 they hosted the women’s World Cup. SA hosted the 2010 edition and it’s now our time.” Fifa began the process on Tuesday with a letter to all member associations inviting bids for the tournament. SA will have less than a month to submit an expression of interest at the start of a bidding process that will take a year before the hosting decision is made in March 2020. That will leave the appointed host just three years to organise the tournament‚ as opposed to the minimum seven years that the hosts of the men’s World Cup g...
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