Bidding for a World Cup shock: David Cameron, Prince William and David Beckham woo FIFA
The circus is in town here this week but nothing being witnessed beneath the big top that dominates Zurich’s waterfront could possibly compare to the pure spectacle of this World Cup bidding process.
It is an extraordinary scene amid the ice and snow. World leaders, Hollywood stars and sporting greats are buzzing from hotel lobby to meeting room in pursuit of the 22 or 23 members of the FIFA executive committee who will vote tomorrow on the location of the tournaments in 2018 and 2022.
Some of the most powerful men on the planet are all but begging for football’s biggest prize. For England’s bid team, it amounted to a momentous day of lobbying — the arrival of their three lions, the men who have added that X-factor to England’s campaign.
If it was a campaign that at one stage was being severely disrupted by scandal and controversy, it is now being carefully orchestrated by a skilled band of administrators.
While the Russians remained coy about whether Vladimir Putin would even make it, Prince William, David Cameron and David Beckham landed in Zurich with only one mission in mind.
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