France, Germany and French sports minister Marina Ferrari
Thursday
French sports minister Marina Ferrari welcomed the idea of a joint France-Germany bid to host the 2038 World Cup. She said the concept is not yet official, but fits France’s wider future major-event hosting strategy.
Any bid would need to come from the football federations, not the government alone. Ferrari’s comments are the first senior political support for a possible co-hosting push between two of Europe’s biggest football nations since the idea surfaced.