Portugal is a candidate to host the final of the Women’s Champions League in 2025, at the Estádio José Alvalade, in Lisbon, António Costa announced Wednesday.
In his speech at the 47th UEFA Congress, in Lisbon, which this Wednesday re-elects the Slovenian Aleksander Ceferin for a new term as president of the governing body of European football, the prime minister applauded “the great brilliance of the women’s football team”. , who congratulated him on qualifying for the World Cup finals for the first time.
The match was already played in the Portuguese capital, at the Estádio do Restelo, in 2023/14 and Costa says he is “sure” that this will be “another candidacy with a positive result”.
Portugal is “one of the safest and most politically stable countries in the world,” with experience in organizing major events, from Expo 98 to World Youth Day, which Lisbon will host in August, he said.
In addition, as “UEFA’s reference partner”, the country is prepared to organize the 2030 World Cup in a “single bid” together with Spain and Morocco, recalls António Costa.
“It is the first soccer World Cup that unites, through sport and its best values, two continents: Europe and Africa. There is no more powerful message that we can send to the world, to Europe and to Africa, than through soccer, Together we can continue.”
The prime minister stressed that sport in general and football in particular must be “vehicles of peace”, at a time when they are also affected by the war in Ukraine.
“The impact of sporting events, the number of people who attend, and above all the emotions that they allow to live, make sport a unique platform with scope and potential that cannot fail to be used also as this objective”, to promote ” peace, tolerance and understanding of the world”.
Source: TSF
