Emma Hayes: USWNT in ‘dreamland’ as United States set to co-host 2031 Ladies’s World Cup
Emma Hayes says the U.S. girls’s nationwide group is in “dreamland” following the information that the USA is ready to co-host the 2031 Ladies’s World Cup.
FIFA confirmed on Friday {that a} joint bid from U.S. Soccer and different Concacaf member associations was the only real expression of curiosity for the 2031 match. Ought to a compliant bid be submitted by the tip of 2025, this can pave the best way for the U.S. to stage the Ladies’s World Cup for the primary time since 2003.
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Hayes wouldn’t be drawn as as to whether she would nonetheless be in worldwide administration forward of the tournaments in 2031 and 2035, which the UK is the only real bidder for, however she stated she meant to attend the tournaments in a supporter capability on the very least.
“Dreamland I feel for us to know that there’ll be a World Cup coming to those shores,” Hayes stated, talking throughout Friday’s pre-match press convention forward of Saturday’s pleasant towards Brazil.
“The infrastructure’s going to be in place from the lads’s World Cup (in 2026), so how wonderful that’s. I don’t know what that may seem like past what we’ll do on this nation, however I feel actual credit score goes to (U.S. Soccer CEO) JT (Batson) and (U.S. Soccer president) Cindy (Parlow Cone) for the work they’ve executed on that bid.
“It’s so aligned with our technique and the way we wished to actually push as greatest we might. We all know we are able to’t management that call however we wished to verify the federation knew it was actually necessary for us to host, so actual credit score to them.”
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U.S. Soccer and the Mexican Soccer Federation that they had been set to launch a joint bid for the 2031 match. The 2 federations withdrew their bid for the 2027 World Cup — which can be staged in Brazil — to pivot to 2031. that the prospect of staging matches in Costa Rica and Jamaica was additionally being explored.
“U.S. Soccer Federation confirmed its curiosity to submit a joint bid with different Member Associations from Concacaf (to be confirmed in the end),” a FIFA assertion on the 2031 expression of curiosity learn.
World soccer’s governing physique say the hosts for 2031 and 2035 are anticipated to be introduced on the FIFA congress within the second quarter of 2026.
It was additionally confirmed by FIFA president Gianni Infantino on Thursday {that a} joint United Kingdom bid from the soccer associations of England, Scotland, Northern Eire and Wales was the only real expression of curiosity for the 2035 Ladies’s World Cup.
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On the prospect of the Ladies’s World Cup going down in her dwelling nation, Hayes added: “And clearly for England, dwelling of soccer, it’s wonderful for England, particularly understanding how profitable the Euros (in 2022) has been for them. So I feel it’s truthful to say in no matter capability, fan or teaching, I’ll for certain be at these World Cups.”
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