King Mohammed VI happy with Morocco’s World Cup bid approval

The FIFA World Cup will be coming in 2030 to Africa for the second time in the 100-year history of the World Cup, when Morocco, in partnership with Portugal and Spain, hosts the FIFA World Cup 2030.

The joint bid from the three countries was unanimously approved as the sole candidate by FIFA’s Council at a meeting on Wednesday but the opening three matches of the tournament will be played in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay.

FIFA said the decision to award Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay the opening games was part of the tournament’s 100th anniversary.

The decision will see Morocco become only the second African country to ever stage a World Cup after South Africa in 2010, and news comes amid huge excitement around Moroccan football. Most especially, King Mohammed VI.

According him the Moroccan people were delighted at the news, which comes after the country’s groundbreaking run to the World Cup semi-finals in Qatar last year.

“His Majesty King Mohammed VI…has the great pleasure of announcing to the Moroccan people that the FIFA Council has unanimously selected the Morocco-Spain-Portugal bid as the sole candidate to organise the 2030 football World Cup,” a statement from the Royal Office said.