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Sam Kerr will spearhead Australia in next yr’s World Cup DAVID GRAY AFP/File
Sydney (AFP) – Soccer Australia on Friday brushed apart claims that the Females’s World Cup this might perchance co-host next yr with New Zealand might perchance perchance per chance even be shifted to meet European broadcasters and be sure better climate prerequisites.
The subject became once raised by French newspaper L’Equipe on Thursday, which stated the sport’s governing body FIFA had informally approached “several” European soccer our bodies to issue about the merits of inviting the event closer to the southern hemisphere summer season.
The 32-group tournament is scheduled to begin on July 20.
L’Equipe stated decrease-than-anticipated TV rights hobby from European broadcasters became once a key motivation, given suits would be performed early morning for them and August became once seen as an negative month with folks on inch.
The document additionally pointed to additional daylight within the Australian summer season.
Soccer Australia stated in a short commentary to AFP it became once not planning for any alternate.
“Following recent ‘One twelve months To Rush’ celebrations across Australia and New Zealand, Soccer Australia continues to position in direction of the FIFA Females’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023 kicking off in July next yr as scheduled,” it stated.
The Sydney Morning Herald cited a FIFA spokesperson with an practically an identical enlighten, nonetheless added: “No changes to the dates of the competition are foreseen.”
FIFA Secretary Overall Fatma Samoura became once in Australia closing month to label the one-yr countdown, announcing she became once awaiting a “with out a doubt unforgettable” event and giving no hint of any alternate of plans.
The month-prolonged tournament will take put in 5 Australian and four New Zealand cities. The contrivance is scheduled in Auckland on October 22.
The USA won the 2019 version in France.
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