By Xinhua,
JAKARTA : Indonesia plans to upgrade the infrastructure throughout the country in an attempt to boost its chance of winning the 2022 World Cup, an official said on Tuesday.
“The three well prepared cities include Jakarta, Samarinda and Palembang, all of which have good infrastructure for world level sports event,” said the Indonesian Sports and Youth Ministry expert staff Johar Arifin.
“We are still preparing another 11 cities for the possible 2022World Cup in Indonesia,” he added.
He said that the FIFA requires 10 cities with good infrastructure for bidding countries to host the 2022 World Cup, and Indonesia would have 14 prepared.
The Minister of Youth and Sports Adhyaksa Dault was quoted by a local news paper named Indonesia GuoJi Ribao on Tuesday as saying that Indonesia will build stadiums in 10 cities, including Bogor, Bandung, Pekanbaru and Bali to bid for the premier soccer event.
Some of these new stadiums, according to Arifin, will be put into operation for the Southeast Asian Games in 2011 and the World Islamic Games in 2013.