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Manchester United have thrown their weight behind Trafford Council’s bold bid to host the 2035 FIFA Girls’s World Cup, positioning the revamped Previous Trafford because the centrepiece of the UK’s general proposal to stage the showpiece match.
United to construct new stadium
In March this yr, United confirmed plans to go away Previous Trafford and transfer to a brand new state-of-the-art 100,000-seater stadium.
The stadium, which would be the largest within the UK, is about to be constructed on land adjoining to Previous Trafford. Award-winning architect Lord Norman Foster is main the challenge.
United launched designs of the stadium, which Sir Jim Ratcliffe has repeatedly branded ‘the Wembley of the North.’
It has been acknowledged that the stadium will take 5 years to construct and United have now confirmed their dedication to having the brand new stadium prepared in time to host matches on the 2035 Girls’s World Cup.
The English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh soccer associations formally submitted their joint bid to FIFA for the 2035 World Cup on Friday, though they had been already all however assured to host the match as the only real candidates.
United’s new stadium has been included as a part of the shortlist for 2035 Girls’s World Cup venues.
United assertion
United’s chief working officer, Collette Roche, said, “We’re proud to be a part of the wealthy sporting and cultural cloth of Trafford, and the FIFA Girls’s World Cup 2035 is an excellent alternative for us to showcase our house to the remainder of the world.”
“Our ambition is to construct a brand new 100,000-seater stadium match to host the largest worldwide soccer video games.”
“This can be a part of a wider regeneration of the world round Previous Trafford, with far-reaching advantages for the area people, Larger Manchester and surrounding area.”
“We additionally wish to be a frontrunner within the development of ladies’s soccer, in our personal neighbourhood and world wide.”
“All these aims come collectively in Trafford’s bid to be a bunch metropolis for the FIFA Girls’s World Cup 2035, and we’re wanting ahead to working with our companions in making this extremely thrilling imaginative and prescient a actuality.”
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