Last Wednesday March 15th, the Conmebol Congress in Kigali, Rwanda, and the President of FIFAGianni Infantino, ratified Peru as the host country of the U-17 World Cup for this year 2023. Despite Infantino’s confirmation, The Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) has not yet decided to authorize the organization of this tournament International. The reason would be the current social situation in the country due to the heavy rainfall and the damage it caused in various places. According to the journalist Gustavo Peralta from Líbero, despite the fact that there is no official decision, the highest authority of Peruvian football is aware that the government does not consider it possible to organize the World Cup.
“Basically, the decision is being made because every effort is being put into restoring the areas affected by natural disasters. In addition, the government has information that natural attacks would return before the end of the year,” the first part said.
The communicator noted that everything is ready in the federation to develop the tournament, but they are waiting for the formal decision of the authorities. In addition, he pointed out that due to future phenomena, it is recommended not to organize the World Cup.
“Legacy didn’t complete the work as it should and there were too many delays. Your work was not clean. ENFEN is the institution that did an analysis and today at a meeting they reported that more ‘El Niño’ phenomena are coming and will. For this reason they do not recommend the World Cup,” he said.
As known, The U-17 World Cup will take place from November 10th to December 2nd, 2023 and at the moment Perí remains the venue pending an official statement from the Peruvian Football Federation.