Iberian joint bid to host World Cup 2030 a major objective for country
"The joint bid with Spain will be a goal that is not just football. It has an absolute impact, transformative, and is a major goal of the country," said the secretary of state João Paulo Correia.
Portugal’s secretary of state for youth and sport, João Paulo Correia, said on Monday that the Iberian bid for the football World Cup 2030 will have “an absolute, transformative impact, and is a major objective of the country”.
“The joint bid with Spain will be a goal that is not just football. It has an absolute impact, transformative, and is a major goal of the country,” said João Paulo Correia, during his speech at the opening session of the Football Talks forum.
At the end of the conversation, the minister added that this organisation “has great sporting, social and economic strength”, in addition to the “connection of Portugal to its communities”, also given the “projection of the Portugal brand in the world”.
João Paulo Correia addressed the future of sport, namely football, during this decade, marked by future changes in the centralisation of television rights, following the decree-law approved in February 2020 in relation to that matter.
“The decree-law had two objectives: to increase revenue from television and multimedia rights for clubs and to decrease the inequality between those who receive more and less in the football industry. It also determines that, by 2025/26, the centralised commercialisation model has to be presented. The government is available to continue talking with football organisations”, assured the current secretary of state.
By 2030, João Paulo Correia hopes that “the sporting country will have close to a million federates and that women’s sport will have conquered its objectives, through the strategy that the government has in place”, which is shared with the ideas of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF).
“The federation’s strategy has a big muscle, which is growth in women’s sports. The sports that will grow the most by 2030 will be those that know how to focus on women’s sport,” he said, adding: “We must have a strategy of strength here. Sport will grow if women occupy positions of power in sport.
The Football Talks forum takes place between today and Tuesday at the Cidade do Futebol (Football City, in the Lisbon district), with a vast programme based on themes related to the five strategic pillars identified in the FPF’s Football 2030 Plan: Childhood and Growth, Football for All, Quality of Play, Involvement and Ecosystem Sustainability.
