After Tuesday's deadline passed, football's world governing body confirmed the bids for the 2030 and 2034 World Cups and said there will now be "thorough bidding and evaluation processes" for the tournaments. Football Australia chief executive James Johnson said bidding for the World Cup was "not going to be favourable to Australia". The decisions for both tournaments will be approved by the 211 Fifa members at the congress next year, although the hosting for both 2030 and 2034 are now a formality.

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Football superstar Neymar will undergo surgery Thursday in his native Brazil after tearing a ligament and meniscus in his left knee during a national team match last month, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said Wednesday. Australia will now concentrate on landing the Asian Football Confederation Women’s Asian Cup in 2026 and the newly expanded men’s Fifa Club World Cup in 2029. Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki bin Faisal, Saudi Arabia's sports minister, said the bid "constitutes an important and natural step in our journey as a country passionate about football". Britain's Anthony Joshua, who beat Andy Ruiz in Riyadh in 2019, said he was "here for boxing" before losing to Oleksandr Usyk in Jeddah last year. The best chance for Fifa to obtain binding guarantees to protect workers' rights, ensure freedom of expression and prevent discrimination linked to the World Cup is during the host selection process - not after the hosts have been confirmed and tournament preparation has begun.

Bayern Munich crashed out of the German Cup in the second round for the third time in four years after a remarkable 2-1 loss at third-division Saarbruecken on Wednesday, thanks to a last-minute winner from Marcel Gaus. Saudi Arabia has hosted several major sporting events since 2018, including football, Formula 1, golf and boxing, and will stage the Club World Cup in December. Qatar 2022 was switched to a winter World Cup finals in 2014, almost four years after it was awarded the hosting of the tournament.

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Real Madrid and England star Jude Bellingham said he was targeting Euro 2024 glory with England after winning the Kopa Trophy for the best player of last season aged under 21 at the Ballon d'Or ceremony in Paris on Monday. Johnson said that Australia would back Saudi as a fellow Asian Football Confederation member providing no further bids emerged before the deadline. Fernando Diniz is not just trying to win the Copa Libertadores with Fluminense, he is showing the world that there is another way to play football.Two long-serving previous editors were 'Tityrus' (otherwise J A H Catton, editor of the Athletic News 1900–1924) [1] and Ivan Sharpe (c. It said: "Human rights commitments must be agreed with potential hosts before final decisions on holding the tournaments are made. Video shows the man sitting on the plane's wing waiting for help, before helicopter arrives to airlift him to hospital.

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