Saudi Arabia is favourite to win hosting rights but as a deadline approaches an alternative entry also involving Malaysia and Singapore is on the cards.
Australia and Indonesia are weighing up a joint bid for the 2034 World Cup that could also include Malaysia and Singapore as co-hosts.
“We are discussing with Australia,” said Thohir, who is also a senior government minister and is being touted as a possible vice-presidential candidate in next year’s Indonesian election. After Australia’s failed attempt to win hosting rights to the 2022 World Cup, which was awarded to Qatar, having cost taxpayers $46 million, there has been hesitation about going it alone.
“They said they wanted it,” he told reporters in Jakarta. “We were waiting for the Australian government for their seriousness in working together with Indonesia.” The remarks of the influential and connected Thohir, however, suggest Indonesia favours linking with Australia, Malaysia and Singapore rather than forming part of a long-proposed bid sponsored by the Association of South East Asian Nations .The concept would face myriad hurdles, not least the physical distance between Australia and south-east Asia and the need to include co-hosts as automatic qualifiers.
Indonesia does face a task to prove itself a suitable co-host of a major global sporting spectacle, with its soccer reputation tainted by a legacy of fan violence and corruption. Last year,
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