The International Football Federation (FIFA) announced the changes in the dates of several of its competitions and announced that the next Women’s U-20 World Cup will not finally be in 2021 but in 2022, keeping Costa Rica as the venue.
That tournament was initially to have been played in August and September 2020 jointly by Costa Rica and Panama, but the crisis caused by the covid-19 pandemic modified those plans.
Panama resigned from the organization for financial reasons and the tournament was initially postponed to 2021. Finally, FIFA has determined that this edition is definitively canceled and offered Costa Rica the organization of the next one, that of 2022.
Something similar happened with the Women’s U-17 World Cup, also initially moved to 2021 and finally suspended. India, which was to host, was given the right to host the next event, also in 2022.
“After meticulously analyzing the opinions of the interest groups and given the impossibility of postponing the tournaments again, the FIFA and confederations working group on covid-19 recommended canceling the 2020 editions of both women’s youth tournaments and offering the rights to host them in 2022 to the host countries initially planned for the 2020 competitions,” FIFA explained in a statement.
“In view of the above, and after consulting with FIFA and the host federations regarding the editions of the 2022 tournaments, the Bureau of the Council has approved the appointment of Costa Rica as the organizer of the U-20 Women’s World Cup of FIFA 2022, and to India, of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022, respectively, “said the organization that directs world football.
Among the reasons for deciding not to organize these youth events in 2020 are “the challenges regarding the preparation time of the teams and the many obstacles generated by the pandemic to conclude the continental qualifying tournaments,” explained FIFA, which insisted on its principle. that “health comes first”. AFP (hn).