The Morocco 2026 World Cup bid CEO Hicham El Amrani says hosting the tournament in the North African country would be like staging it in Europe
His remarks comes as both Morocco and rival joint US-Canada-Mexico candidate were due to meet the Fifa bid evaluating Task Force in Zurich on Wednesday. They will answer questions on their bids.
With just two weeks before 207 Fifa member associations vote for the 2026 World Cup hosts, the Moroccan bidding team now appear to be focusing more on Uefa, where the most influential voters come from.
Most European federations seem to have fallen for the appealing North African time zone which is similar to theirs.