The 2030 World Cup that is disputed in Spain, Portugal and Morocco, is in turmoil.
The 2030 World Cup is already preparing in the country of football. While the 2026 World Cup on the other side of the Atlantic, in the United States, Mexico and Canada, is fast approaching with European qualifications which will start in a few days and which have already started on other continents, that of 2030 is in controversy.
According to information from the Spanish media El Mundothe Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) would have falsified certain notes during the allocation of stadiums for the next World Cup in order to exclude the Celta Vigo stadium for the benefit of that of Real Sociedad, the Stade of Anoeta, in Saint-Sebastien.
In the report consulted by the Spanish media, we can see the two rankings. In the first, the Balaídos (stadium of Celta Vigo) appears in the eleventh and last qualifying position, with a score of 10,2004, the anoeta positioning itself just behind (score of 10,1226). The second ranking, dated 48 later, displays the Stade de Saint-Sébastien at the top, with a score modified by the Federation of 10,6026 points.
A “sub -factor” would have been increased to pass the anoeta to this Top 11, entitled: “Take into account the level of intervention to be carried out”. As the Spanish site indicates, María Tato, member of the International Zone of the RFEF and one of the 2030 World Cup managers, received the two versions of Excel spreadsheets, the original and the modified, by email on June 27, at 3:16 p.m.
A first email seemed to confirm the selection of the Celta Vigo stadium, such as Rafael Louzán, vice president of the Fed at the time, seemed to indicate, with the recommendations of the government. The latter would then have warned that the information he provided was “only for his personal information and that of the president”.
But finally, on June 28, this classification was modified and sent to representatives of Spanish football. This time, the Federation explained that Spain had 11 host cities, designated through “a series of objective criteria and ladders, in accordance with the application requirements of FIFA”, which concentrated “on the technical project, operational capacity, financial structure and installations of host cities, in addition to compliance with documentary and contractual requirements”.
The day of the announcement, at 1:46 p.m., the RFEF sent a brief email to the town hall of Vigo to inform it that it would not welcome the World Cup … The mayor of Vigo has since demanded that the RFEF renders the criteria that excluded its city. “All I ask is that they tell us what data support the exclusion of Vigo, that they say it, that they make it public.” Contacted by El Mundo, the Fed indicated that “certain objective criteria have been refined in accordance with FIFA directives”. His representatives add that the only motivation for this change was “technical” in nature.