Obama Soccer Diplomacy
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
President Obama and a special guest conducted a little soccer diplomacy today.Joseph "Sepp" Blatter, the president of world soccer's governing body, said he formally invited Obama to next year's World Cup tournament in South Africa, and that Obama directed his aides to look into the prospect.
"He said, 'look at the agenda,' " Blatter reported after the meeting.
The World Cup is the globe's biggest sporting event, and probably the biggest event of any kind to ever be held in Africa.
Obama, meanwhile, asked the  head of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to consider the United States as host for the quadrennial event, either in 2018 or 2022. (The 2014 World Cup will be in Brazil.)
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