{"id":48712,"date":"2025-07-07T16:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=48712"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:18:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:18:30","slug":"uzbekistan-and-azerbaijan-submit-joint-bid-to-host-the-fifa-u-20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/uzbekistan-and-azerbaijan-submit-joint-bid-to-host-the-fifa-u-20-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan submit joint bid to host the FIFA U-20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48713\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Azerbaijan-Uzbekistan-FIFA-e1751905018701.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><strong>ISLAMABAD : Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan have jointly submitted a bid to host the 2027 FIFA U-20 World Cup. According to the Uzbekistan Football Association, FIFA has officially begun reviewing bids for the hosting rights of the FIFA U-20 World Cup 2027.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taking into account the recent football reforms, infrastructure development, and growing international reputation of Turkic-speaking nations, the football associations of Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan have submitted a joint candidacy, expressing strong confidence in their ability to stage the tournament at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>Today, alongside Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan is fully prepared to host this prestigious tournament. In recent years, stadiums across the country have been upgraded to meet international standards.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the experience gained from hosting the AFC U-20 and U-23 tournaments, as well as the first-ever Futsal World Cup held in Central Asia, has laid a solid foundation. This futsal tournament was recognized by FIFA President Gianni Infantino as one of the best editions in the competition\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>As always, our nation stands ready to capture the world\u2019s attention through its renowned hospitality, professional organization, deep passion for football, and, of course, the unwavering support of our dedicated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"XOo1m1ubuk\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-april-may-2024\/\">Pakistan in the World \u2013 April \/ May 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pakistan in the World \u2013 April \/ May 2024&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-april-may-2024\/embed\/#?secret=KWlShyncgb#?secret=XOo1m1ubuk\" data-secret=\"XOo1m1ubuk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD : Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan have jointly submitted a bid to host the 2027 FIFA U-20 World Cup. According to the Uzbekistan Football Association, FIFA has officially begun reviewing bids for the hosting rights of the FIFA U-20 World Cup 2027. Taking into account the recent football reforms, infrastructure development, and growing international reputation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,7265,143,1152,980,251,1148,7266,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48715,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48712\/revisions\/48715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}