Around 2001, there was a big controversy with FIFA when Germany was awarded the 2006 world cup instead of South Africa. FIFA President Sepp Blatter wanted the World Cup to be in South Africa, and vowed to create a rotation policy to ensure each continent would be awarded a World Cup in turn.
Now, the rotation policy has ended. What a waste this whole thing was. Why didn't FIFA come up with a common sense rule/policy to rotate the World Cup that didn't guarantee a specific continent a World Cup. Maybe the last 5 countries, or 2 continents to host are ineligible. This would ensure that the World Cup would be moved around, which was the aim of the rotation policy.
There was way too much made about this in 2001, and I'm glad some common sense has prevailed.
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