The football World Cup, the most popular single-sport festival ever invented, has bypassed the Arabic-speaking world for most of its first century of existence. READ MORE:There is certainly experience in the process of World Cup bidding. There are already six arenas, in Rabat, Casablanca, Tangier, Fes, Marrakesh and Agadir with capacities of 45,000 or over to comply with Fifa World Cup requirements. Morocco hosted the Fifa Club World Cup in 2013 and 2014 and Gianni Infantino, the world governing body’s president, last year declared Morocco “capable, in terms of infrastructure and organisation, of hosting a World Cup” though he did not specify a date. A World Cup there would slot more kindly into a time zone friendly to European television audiences, and it would certainly be closer to travel to for supporters of the 16 European teams taking part.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 13, 2017 11:03 UTC