By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
March 24 – India should bid for the 2026 World Cup in an effort to improve playing standards in the country, the national coach Bob Houghton said today.
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March 22 – David Beckham’s presence in South Africa during the 2010 World Cup can help swing the bid behind England 2018, Danny Jordaan has claimed.
March 22 – Telecommunicatios company Oi has become the first local sponsor of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, it was announced today.
March 22 – Ipswich Town today signed an agreement to be a training base for the World Cup if England’s bid to host the 2018 tournament is successful.
March 21 – Nurdin Halid (pictured), the President of the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI), has apologised after the country’s bid to host the 2022 World Cup was debarred from the race by FIFA.
March 20 – Australian Rules football will refuse to take a backseat if the country is awarded the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, the league’s chief executive Andrew Demetriou (pictured) has warned.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
March 19 – Colombia President Alvaro Uribe (pictured) has announced his country will bid to host the 2026 football World Cup after receiving encouragement from Jack Warner.
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By David Owen
March 19 - And then there were nine after Indonesia appears to be out of the race to stage the 2022 World Cup following its failure to come up with satisfactory Governmental guarantees by the required deadline.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 18 – The bid to stage the 2022 World Cup has burst into controversy with the revelation that Qatar have arranged to be last on the list of FIFA technical inspection visits – several weeks after the other Asian candidates.
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By Andrew Warshaw
March 18 – Australia’s bid to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022 has received a timely boost following an agreement on the principle of paying compensation to rival sports unhappy at being marginalised during the event.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
March 18 – Vladimir Putin (pictured) is being urged to reprise his successful role in bringing the 2014 Olympics to Sochi and personally lead Russia’s bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup in December.
March 18 – Indonesia’s top football administrator, Nurdin Halid (pictured), is to be asked to explain to the country’s lawmkers how the country can be more successful on the international stage.
March 17 – Belgium’s King and Prime Minister have rolled out the red-carpet for Mohamed Bin Hammam, the President of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), to try to help the campaign for the country’s joint World Cup bid with the Netherlands.
March 17 – Virgin Atlantic has been named as the official airline of England’s World Cup team in a deal that is a massive snub to British Airways, who had performed the role for the last three tournaments.
March 14 – David Beckham is set to be able to spend more time promoting England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup after suffering a serious injury that will keep him out of this year’s tournament in South Africa.