The announcement of the World Cup locations for 2018 and 2022 was today. The US was hoping for the 2022 World Cup and even sent in Morgan Freeman to try and sway some votes. Unfortunately, Morgan lost his place during his speech. As for the winners of the bids, Russia will host the World Cup in 2018 and Qatar will host it in 2022. Both countries have never hosted the event before. As for 2022, it will be the first World Cup hosted in the Middle East.
Seemed like good choices for me. Yes, I would love to have the World Cup here in the US and even to have gone to a game if possible. However, the US had already hosted the World Cup once in 1994. Just knowing it was hosted here once before is an honor even though I was too young to have been aware of it. I'm content that two more countries that have never hosted a World Cup now get to.
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