{"id":3383,"date":"2010-08-04T15:57:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T14:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/2010\/08\/04\/simon-kuper-reviews-the-contenders-for-hosting-the\/"},"modified":"2016-05-02T19:25:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:25:35","slug":"simon-kuper-reviews-the-contenders-for-hosting-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/2010\/08\/04\/simon-kuper-reviews-the-contenders-for-hosting-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Kuper reviews the contenders for hosting the World Cups in 2018, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Kuper reviews the contenders for hosting the World Cups in 2018, 2022 and the impact of China&#8217;s interest in hosting 2026. Where on earth will The Ball go after Brazil in 2014?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fbfpi_link\">\n<div class=\"fbfpi_image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/7c42e224-9c1c-11df-a7a4-00144feab49a.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"&copy; ft.com - FT.com \/ weekend columnists \/ Simon Kuper - Cold war rivals vie to stage football\u2019s big event\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/05\/fbfpi_a4733691bf95184310dfda679e967c72.jpg\" title=\"&copy; ft.com - FT.com \/ weekend columnists \/ Simon Kuper - Cold war rivals vie to stage football\u2019s big event\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"fbfpi_text\">\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/7c42e224-9c1c-11df-a7a4-00144feab49a.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"&copy; ft.com - FT.com \/ weekend columnists \/ Simon Kuper - Cold war rivals vie to stage football\u2019s big event\">FT.com \/ weekend columnists \/ Simon Kuper &#8211; Cold war rivals vie to stage football\u2019s big event<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><small>ft.com<\/small><\/p>\n<p>In December Fifa selects the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups with Russia, China and the US in with a fighting chance<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Kuper reviews the contenders for hosting the World Cups in 2018, 2022 and the impact of China&#8217;s interest in hosting 2026. Where on earth will The Ball go after Brazil in 2014?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"geo":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}