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Argentina offered to organize the U-20 World Cup in the face of Indonesia’s possible loss

Argentina offered to organize the U-20 World Cup in the face of Indonesia’s possible loss

Given the international political conflict between Indonesia and Israel, the U-20 World Cup is at risk of being held in Southeast Asia and for this reason the AFA applied to FIFA to organize the youth tournament. The details.

The Argentine Football Association (AFA) offered to the FIFA organize the Sub 20 world planned for this year in Indonesiasince that country maintains a position of not accepting Israel in competition, for championing the cause Palestineand runs the risk of falling over as a seat.

The contest must begin on May 20 and will run until June 11.

Last Friday the draw for the group stage was canceled due to the fact that both Indonesia as Iraq they did not want to share the same area as Israel, so the drums had to be changed. Nevertheless, the decision of the organizing country would be “ban” the participation of the Israeli federation due to their political differences.

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being Indonesia a predominantly Muslim country, the participation of Israelwhich maintains a years-long conflict with Palestine by the territory, it would be vetoed by the locals. But the FIFA He does not want to remove him from the contest for political reasons, unrelated to sports.

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Argentina took advantage of this conflictive situation for the FIFA to offer itself as a new headquarters in case of loss of Indonesia. This would be for put the country as a showcase for the nomination for the World Cup 2030next to Chile, Uruguay and Paraguayan.

The Selection Sub-20 directed by Javier Mascherano was eliminated in South American which was disputed in Colombia last January and could not qualify for the world Cup.

The country has already hosted a Sub 20 world in the past: was in 2001under the technical direction of Jose Pekerman and with figures of the stature of Andrés D’Alessandro, Javier Saviola, Leandro Romagnoli, Maximiliano Rodríguez and Leonardo Ponzio. That team became champion by defeating 3-0 Ghana in the end.

Source: Ambito

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