FIFA is taking unprecedented steps to celebrate 100 years of the World Cup.
On Wednesday, the international soccer federation announced that the joint bid of Morocco, Portugal, and Spain is the only candidate to host the 2030 World Cup, marking the first time a World Cup will be played across multiple continents.
But FIFA doesn’t stop there: FIFA also declared that it would play the first three matches of the tournament in Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay to honor the very first World Cup, which occurred in Uruguay in 1930. Montevideo’s Estádio Centenário, where the inaugural World Cup Final took place, will host the opening match of the 2030 World Cup.
This brings the total number of host countries to six, spanning three continents — double and triple, respectively, the…
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