Morocco and Iberian neighbors Spain and Portugal are still battling it out over who will host the World Cup final, as the three countries prepare to jointly organize in largest international sporting event.
After Lisbon did not express interest in hosting the 2030 World Cup, which will be held for the first time on three continents, the competition is now between Rabat and Madrid.
While Spain has an existing infrastructure that could increase its chances of hosting the final, Morocco is also engaged in renewing its sports infrastructure, which is expected to include six major stadiums.
According to StadiumDataBiz, a platform specialized in sports facilities, “the question of the 2030 World Cup final still raises a number of questions about which country will host it, especially with the progress of the Casablanca Grand Stadium project, which will compete with Spain’s Sanyago Bernabéu and Camp Nou.”
The same platform reported that “Morocco has started preparing to start work on the Casablanca Grand Stadium, an indication of its desire to win the honor of hosting the final, as the deal to design this sports facility was awarded to the British company Populous, in cooperation with Oualalou andchoi, while six other candidates applied for the deal, including the Spanish architects Cruz and Ortiz.”
“The design of the stadium is still a mystery,” she said, adding that “the construction of this sports facility will be built on an area of about 100 hectares in the Mansouria area between Casablanca and the capital Rabat, to be completed by 2028, two years before the world event.”
The same source pointed out that “Morocco only needed a stadium with a capacity of more than 80,000 fans, while it made a great effort to provide this facility that will accommodate about 115,000 spectators, the largest of its kind in the world, surpassing both Spain’s Camp Nou and North Korea’s Rongrado May Day.”
All these efforts, according to the platform, are mainly related to “Morocco’s desire to hold the final on its territory, which was confirmed by the president of the Royal Moroccan Football Association, Faouzi Lekjaa, on a previous occasion after he pointed out the need for an exceptional final worthy of the continent.”
Stadium Data Biz added that “Morocco has hopes that the current chaos in the Spanish Football Federation will affect the Iberian country’s chances of competing for the final of the global event, as it cannot present a new San Diego Bernabeu to FIFA.”
“Spain is counting heavily on this stadium in Madrid, despite the presence of the Camp Nou stadium, whose renovation will be completed before the date of the World Cup, while Morocco appears to be its biggest rival in this regard.”
In the face of this Moroccan competition, the platform specializing in sports facilities pointed out that “Lisbon is not ready to compete for the final, given that it does not intend to allocate financial costs to increase the capacity of its stadiums, which means it will not host the final of the World Cup.”
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