JOHANNESBURG — South African soccer leader Danny Jordaan has promised Morocco “unqualified support” to host the 2026 World Cup in a contest against a combined North American bid. Morocco is up against a United States-Canada-Mexico bid to stage the continent’s second World Cup. In indictments published by the justice department in 2015, two of the listed “co-conspirators” are South African soccer officials who are not identified. Up to 207 FIFA member federations will vote at their congress on the eve of the World Cup in Russia. North American bid leaders targeted the 14-member southern African soccer body COSAFA at a February meeting in Johannesburg.

Source: National Post April 16, 2018 13:07 UTC