U.S. Soccer will bid unopposed for the 2031 Women's World Cup, and the "path" is clear for the United States to host the tournament, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said Thursday.
Technically, the U.S. still must "win" a vote at next year's FIFA Congress, a gathering of the world's 211 national soccer federations. But that vote will be a foregone conclusion and probably a charade, much like the ones last November that awarded the 2030 and 2034 men's World Cups to Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay (2030) and to Saudi Arabia (2034).