He couldn’t be at FIFA House with the rest of the U.S. delegation to deliver the bid book on Friday, but Drew Carey still made himself heard on the USA’s bid to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022.
“It’ll be like having three Super Bowls a day in the United States,” the Seattle Sounders minority owner said on ESPNEWS. “That’s how big it is.”
Carey, who is a member of the USA Bid Committee, did not stop at that analogy with the NFL.
“The Super Bowl doesn’t even exist compared to the World Cup,” Carey said.
He is convinced that after next month’s event in South Africa, the USA is just what FIFA wants to set attendance and financial records that wouldn’t be matched, as he said, “in 100 years.”
“I’m excited about the World Cup in South Africa but it’s been a chore to get the country ready to host the World Cup,” he said. “I think after all that I‘m hoping the people that vote on [the World Cup host] will say, ‘Let’s just go to a place where we don’t have to go through all that bother again and where they’re ready to go,’ and they’ll vote on [the USA] to have it.”
