The home city of the United States Soccer Federation, the nation's third largest city, the city
that recently bid for the 2016 Olympic Games, the city that played host to the opening game in the
1994 World Cup, a city with a storied soccer history and a richly diverse soccer culture, my sweet
home Chicago, is not on the list of cities for the United States' 2018 and 2022 World Cup bid, the
Federation announced today.
Forgive the headline, please. It's just that, on occasion, it's nice to pretend to be writing for
the Daily Star. In fact, that's probably preferable to actually writing for it, which, I would
imagine, would be soul destroying.I digress.So, what could derail England's fledgling World Cup
bid, I hear you ask?
Denver has been included on a list of 18 cities that will be part of the United States' bid to
host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022. The announcement was made Tuesday afternoon in New York by the
U.S. bid committee.
The other cities included in the bid were Los Angeles; Atlanta; Kansas City, Mo.
US Soccer announced today that a friendly match against El Salvador will be held on February 24,
2010 at 7 p.m. at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. The game will be broadcast on ESPNClassic and
Telefutura. The recent news of Tampa making the final 18 proposed US venues for WC 2018/2022, and
the Tampa Bay Rowdies finally learning that they will field a USL team already had the soccer
contingent in Tampa buzzing.
Big Story
There is some breathless commentary to the news that FIFA seems set to restrict the 2018 World Cup
bidding to European countries, leaving 2022 open for the rest of the world.
