King Mohamed VI announced on Tuesday that Morocco will present itself together with Spain and Portugal in a joint bid to host the 2030 Soccer World Cup.
In a message from the monarch read during the delivery of the CAF Excellence Award in Rwanda and published by the Moroccan agency MAP, Mohamed VI highlighted that he will be the candidacy of the union "between Africa and Europe, between the north and south of the Mediterranean and between the African, Arab and Euro-Mediterranean worlds".
"It will also be -says the message- a candidacy that will bring together the best of both parties and the demonstration of an alliance of genius, creativity, experience and resources".
The text was read by the Moroccan Minister of Education and Sports, Chakib Benmoussa, at the delivery in Kigali (Rwanda) of the aforementioned 2022 award to the monarch and the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, an award that Mohamed VI considers "a tribute to the talent of Africa and its dazzling youth".
The monarch affirms that he wants to make football in Morocco "a lever for success and sustainable human development", because, "in addition to being a passion and the expression of creative talent, football is a vision of the future, a long-term commitment , efficient and transparent governance and investment in infrastructure and human capital".
Mohamed VI recalls in his message that Moroccan football honored Africa at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where the Maghrebi country's team came fourth, and honors the values of "perseverance" and "self-improvement".
And he stresses that "beyond words, the Kingdom of Morocco - which hosted the last FIFA Club World Cup - has once again demonstrated with actions that its resources, infrastructures and experience, particularly in football, are at available to all African countries that wish, too, to make youth a lever of hope and growth".
