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Ukraine has joined Spain and Portugal successful their bid to big the 2030 World Cup.
The concern betwixt the 3 countries was confirmed by leaders of the countries' 3 shot federations astatine UEFA office Wednesday.
"This is the imagination of millions of Ukrainian fans. The imagination of radical who survived the horrors of warfare oregon are inactive successful the occupied territories, implicit which the Ukrainian emblem volition surely alert soon," said Andriy Pavelko, president of Ukraine's shot federation, at a quality league Wednesday.
He said the determination was sanctioned by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ukraine has been nether full-scale penetration by Russia since February.
Details were not fixed connected however galore games would beryllium held successful Ukraine, oregon successful which cities, but the Olympic Stadium successful Kyiv hosted the finals of the 2012 European Championship and the 2018 Champions League.
"Now it's not the Iberian bid, it's the European bid," Spain's shot federation president, Luis Rubiales, said astatine the quality conference, according to the Associated Press. "Together we correspond the powerfulness of translation shot has successful society."
Spain and Portugal previously announced their associated bid successful June 2021. The caller bid faces contention from a collaboration betwixt Egypt, Greece and Saudi Arabia, and a South American bid betwixt Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Chile.
FIFA volition ballot to take the big successful 2024.
