VALENCIA'S Nou Mestalla Stadium is set to have its World Cup hosting rights restored after work restarted following 16 years. The skeleton of what had been dubbed "the world's best stadium" had been lying dormant as construction work halted in 2009. However, after the best part of two decades, work has finally restarted on the stunning project.
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The aim is to complete the 70,000-capacity stadium by the summer of 2027 after the club unveiled its sixth set of plans since the original announcement in 2006. And the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Rafael Louzán, has now suggested the ground will be one of those to play host to World Cup football in 2030.
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During a trip to the stadium with FFCV and LALIGA, he said: "I said it this morning, I am just another Valencianista, Valencia is not going to miss out on hosting the World Cup. "I can assure you of that. We have already been working on this and I know that in the end that would be something tremendously unfair and that it is not going to happen.
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"I want to reassure the Valencianistas so that they know that our work is oriented in that direction so that a stadium like this can host the World Cup and host important matches. "We must remember that the Nou Mestalla is going to be the most modern stadium in Spain with a very important capacity. Valencia is going to host the 2030 World Cup.".
Spain is co-hosting the tournament with Morocco and Portugal. JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUS. While the final venues for the tournament have not been announced, the so-called "most modern stadium" in the country would be a big miss at such a prestigious tournament.
