No Rotation Policy for World Cup after 2018:Faisal        


LAHORE,July 5 (APP)- President,Pakistan Football Federation,Faisal Saleh Hayat said on Monday that the rotation policy to allocate the World football Cup had been dropped with effect from the 2018 Cup.“All the associations would be free to apply to host future World Cup tournaments, provided they did not belong to confederations that had hosted the two preceding editions. For the 2018 World Cup that will bids from Africa or South America”,he said in a message from Johannesburg where he is officiating a member of FIFA Disciplinary Committee of the ongoing World Cup.
FIFA Executive Committee has voted unanimously to end its policy of rotating the hosting of World Cups through its six continental confederations.
South Africa was the first beneficiary of the short-lived rotation policy as it is hosting the ongoing show.Brazil is the only candidate bidding to stage the 2014 World Cup in South America and is due to have its host status rubber-stamped by FIFA.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th World Cup, an international football tournament that is expected to take place between June and July 2014 in Brazil. This will be the second time the country has hosted the competition, the first being the 1950 World Cup.
Brazil will become the fifth country to have hosted the FIFA World Cup twice, after Mexico, Italy, France and Germany. It will be the first World Cup to have been held in the American continent since the 1994 edition in the United States,the first time in South America since the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, and the first time consecutive World Cups have been staged in the Southern Hemisphere.
Brazil will also become the first nation to break the well-established tradition of allowing a European nation to host the World Cup Finals every eight years.


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