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México va por su tercera corona.
Mexico goes for its third crown.
República de Corea llega como subcampeón de Asia.
South Korea arrives as runner up of Asia.
tomed to big sporting events. In fact,
Talca and Puerto Montt will be for the
first time international tournament venues.
Even the latter city is the more austral city
in which a FIFA World CupTM match has
been played in the whole history. 95% of
commitments will be played in regions.
The work together with the venues, not
only considers plans to bring the World
Cup to the inhabitants of these communes, but also to others nearby and
all the surrounding towns, vulnerable
neighbourhoods, schools, sports clubs,
foundations and neighbourhood associations. For this it is planned to work together with all social organizations that
want to be part of this great event, with
the objective that throughout the country the largest number of Chileans may
have possibilities to live the experience
of attending a World Cup.
“We do not want only that the family
attends in multitude to live this tremendous show, we also want to increase the
sport practice in each region. That our
public become also players of the sport,
“said Carlos Honorato, executive director
of the Local Organizing Committee.
And, of course, that abroad there is
also much expectation. That is why the
championship will be televised to 192
countries, with estimated 5800 hours of
television transmission and about 200
million viewers.
24 for a Cup
In the sports area, a high-level event is expected. Six National teams from Europe,
four from CONMEBOL, four from CONCACAF, four from Asia and the same number
from Africa, plus one from Oceania and
the host, will go for the title of the FIFA
U-17 World Cup.
In Chile there will be present the more title
winning teams in this category as Nigeria
(4), Brazil (3) and Mexico (2). Also, this edition will feature a newcomer team: South
Africa. All of them will go for the glory, led
by young talents who dream of becoming
big stars of world football.
Fifa u-17 World Cup
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