— Published on December 6, 2013

First World Cup in India

Football

Universality is not an empty word for FIFA. The International Football Federation demonstrated this again by awarding four of the next World Cups on Thursday, December 6. A big first, India was preferred to South Africa and Uzbekistan to organize the Under-17 World Cup in 2017. Jordan, for its part, obtained the organization of the Under-17 World Cup. girls in 2017. The Under-20 World Cup was awarded to South Korea for boys (2017) and South Africa for girls (2016).