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Saturday, May 3, 2025

Concacaf wants 4 spots for 2014

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20100925

Con­ca­caf pres­i­dent, Jack Warn­er has asked Fi­fa to con­sid­er giv­ing the Con­ca­caf re­gion four au­to­mat­ic places for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.This de­ci­sion was tak­en by the Con­ca­caf Ex­ec­u­tive Com­mit­tee which vot­ed unan­i­mous­ly to pe­ti­tion Fi­fa for the four spots on Thurs­day at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel, Wright­son Road. Warn­er, who al­so re­as­sured Fi­fa pres­i­dent Joseph Sepp Blat­ter of Con­ca­caf's con­tin­ued sup­port as he seeks re-elec­tion to Fi­fa's high­est of­fice, said, "Our mem­bers made it very clear to­day that we need four places and our re­gion is unit­ed be­hind this po­si­tion. I think we have paid our dues and we have showed that we can stand right up there with the best in the world and there­fore we will go to Fi­fa with the hope of get­ting the fourth spot at the World Cup Fi­nals," Warn­er said.

At the Con­gress, Blat­ter ful­ly ac­knowl­edged Warn­er's men­tion of Con­ca­caf's in­ten­tions to go af­ter a fourth spot. "I come back to your speech pres­i­dent Warn­er. Our game is a game which touch­es the world but nev­er ever has there been a World Cup that touched the peo­ple like the one in South Africa. "What you are do­ing here in Con­ca­caf al­so is a great job. All what you are do­ing to­geth­er in the com­ple­tion of clubs and na­tion­al teams, de­vel­op­ment of ad­min­is­tra­tion, ref­er­ee­ing, youth teams and women's teams,And al­so what you are do­ing in the de­vel­op­ment of health in foot­ball is very com­mend­able."

The Fi­fa Ex­ec­u­tive Com­mit­tee will def­i­nite­ly take a clos­er look at the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a fourth spot for Con­ca­caf, said Blat­ter.


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