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or the fourth time in its history, Chile
has the mission of organizing a FIFA
tournament. In 1962 it was the FIFA
World CupTM, in 1987 the FIFA World
Youth Championship, and in 2008, the
FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, giving
proof of their great organizational ability
and passion for football.
Between October 17 and November 8,
the austral country will host the FIFA
U-17 World Cup of 2015, an event that
brings together 24 National teams and
the 504 best athletes in this category at
the global level.
FIFA President Joseph Blatter said “not
many countries have successfully organized three FIFA World Cups in the past.
I am sure that Chile will honour us with
their outstanding hosting ability and
will organize a great FIFA U-17 World
Cup 2015, which will be very much in
line with the successes we saw in 1962,
1987 and the FIFA U-20 Women´s World
Cup in 2008“.
New infrastructure for a great party
To meet the expectations, Chile has arranged eight sites from north to south,
trying to bring closer the third most
important event of the FIFA to most
amounts of people. La Serena, Coquimbo, Viña del Mar, Santiago, Talca,
Concepción, Chillán and Puerto Montt
were the eight cities selected to host the
52 matches to be played until the new
monarch is found.
From the 2008, Chile began to implement a complete plan to modernize its
stadiums, equipping them with the latest technology and leaving the vast ma-
jority of them with FIFA standards. This is
something that will be seen at this event.
In fact, La Portada de La Serena and Sausalito in Viña del Mar recently made their
debut in the last Copa America.
“That is the infrastructure that will accommodate hundreds of young athletes,
with whom we want to highlight the
spirit of healthy competition, comradeship, dedication, values that are given
to us by a golden generation of football
and that today are our sports ambassadors. They will help us in this beautiful
task, “said Chilean Minister of Sport Natalia Riffo.
For Chile and the world
One of the big objectives of this FIFA
U-17 World Cup is to be able to deliver
a world-class event to places unaccus-
Croacia jugará por tercera vez el Mundial Sub-17.
Croacia will play for the third time the FIFA U-17 World Cup.
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Fifa u-17 World Cup