Indonesia Is Not Alone, This Is A List Of Countries That Are Canceled To Host The World Cup

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YOGYAKARTA Indonesia failed to host the 2023 U-20 World Cup. Beyond this problem, did you know that in the history of international football, there are several countries that have canceled hosting the World Cup.

According to records, countries hosting the U-20 World Cup have changed at least five different editions for different periods and different reasons.

Even worse, there is one country that has been recorded to have experienced two cancellations. Meanwhile, Indonesia is the fourth country to be crossed out by FIFA as the host country of the World Cup. So which countries have failed to host the World Cup?

FIFA once crossed out Nigeria as the host of the U-20 World Cup. Even the deletion occurred twice.

The first deletion occurred in 1991. At that time, Nigeria's status as the host of the World Cup was revoked by FIFA because the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) apparently falsified the age of the player who was a member of the U-20 Nigerian national team. Instead, Portugal hosted the 1991 U-20 World Cup. Even Portugal U-20 won because they managed to beat Brazil.

The second deletion occurred in 1995. At that time Nigeria again failed to host due to an outbreak of meningitis disease attacking the country. Instead, the U-20 1995 World Cup venue was moved to Qatar.

FIFA was forced to cancel the status of Yugoslovia to host the U-20 1993 World Cup because the country was involved in civil war.ten is indeed a fractional country of the Soviet Union that is quite often involved in war. The tense situation and political conditions that occurred at that time did not allow football matches in Yugoslovia to be held.

FIFA finally changed venues to Australia. The edition of the Brazilian U-20 national team managed to win and win the third title in the tournament.

The 2003 U-20 World Cup will once be held in Iraq. It is planned that the tournament will be held from March 25 to April 16, 2003. Unfortunately, FIFA was forced to move the host due to the United States military invasion in Iraq which resulted in a war that seriously endangered the players.

The host's replacement had to be made. FiFA then changed the host Iraq to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The match was held from 27 November to 19 December 2003. Again, the Brazilian U-20 country managed to win.

The most recent country that failed to host the U-20 World Cup was Indonesia. The revocation of Indonesia's status as the host occurred due to a rejection of the U-20 Israeli national team who also played in the 2023 U-20 World Cup.

What is interesting is that the rejection was put forward by officials, political parties, and religious organizations. The reasons for the rejection of themselves are various, for example, one of the Governors alluded to the ideology initiated by President Ir. Soekarno, about the resistance to Israel which was linked to imperialism.

This rejection attitude is considered a form of joint commitment in seeking Palestinian independence.

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