World Cup 2030: South American bid

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47248082

Chile will join Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay in making a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup.

The tournament will mark 100 years since Uruguay hosted the inaugural World Cup in 1930, which they won for the first of their two titles.

It comes just days after a meeting in which a potential British and Irish bid for staging the tournament was discussed.

World Cups from 2026 onwards will be contested by 48 teams.

Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay initially announced their plan for a joint bid in 2017, but Chile's president announced on Thursday his country would join it.

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I like the idea of the centenary tournament returning to where it all began in Uruguay, and since it's such a low-population country, it'd make sense for them to share it with a neighbour (which I'm guessing would have to be Argentina, since Brazil hosted it in 2014). However, I personally think four countries hosting the tournament is really too many.

I know Euro 2020 is going to be a pan-European tournament, but that's just a special one-off, whereas this doesn't sound like one...