Barack Obama Petitions to Host 2018/22 World Cup
May 9, 2009 by Jyle Dupuis
Filed under FIFA World Cup
On May 8, 2009 United States President Barack Obama sat down with the Univision Media. Towards the end of the interview he asked Obama if he supported a US host of the 2018/2022 FIFA World Cup Games. Obama said that wrote a letter to FIFA in hopes that they would consider their bid to host the world’s largest sporting event in the United States. He also said that he hoped that one day America would embrace the sport to a level comparable to the rest of the world.
