2030 Soccer World Cup to be held on three continents
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: The 2030 Soccer World Cup will be held in six countries on three different continents, so how will it affect the bottom line — the money the hosts could make and the cost of building infrastructure? Indonesia has the second highest number of TikTok users worldwide, many of whom use the e-commerce feature, TikTok Shop. But following protests by traders in Jakarta who say it’s damaging their business, the feature has been removed. Plus, the problem of bed bugs in Paris has become so serious that sniffer dogs have been deployed to try and root out them out.
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| 0:55.8 | That's a big question that a lot of people are asking right now, how will this affect |
| 1:19.2 | the money shuffle? |
| 1:20.4 | The thing is it'll crack it up, the money shuffle, it'll go to different places around |
| 1:46.9 | the globe and each venue will have opportunities to try to pull in additional funding through |
| 1:52.0 | tourism and so on. |
| 1:53.8 | But of course it also lowers the appeal for the central host because actually some of |
| 1:58.5 | the money will be psychoned off toward South America and so we're going to have to see |
| 2:02.7 | how this all plays out. |
| 2:03.7 | I mean a lot of it is in the finer print too in terms of how these contracts are negotiated |
| 2:07.9 | with FIFA and who gets to be involved in the money shuffle. |
| 2:12.5 | Joe's boy cough there and now there are also concerns about the environmental impact. |
| 2:16.6 | Here's Dr. Madeline Oar in academic at the University of Toronto who lectures in sports |
| 2:21.3 | sustainability. |
| 2:22.6 | It's pretty shocking to be honest, you know we heard a lot of talk after the Qatar World |
| 2:27.5 | Cup that you know they wanted to focus on sustainability that there would be consideration |
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