Group of Canadians and Canada-based Moroccans support Morocco's Bid to Host 2006 World Soccer Cup
Morocco, Sports, 11/27/1999

A group of Canadians and Moroccans based in Canada have set up a committee to support Morocco's candidacy to host the 2006 world soccer cup. The committee's birth was announced Friday in Montreal at a ceremony attended by Morocco's ambassador and a host of business, sports and media figures from the Canadian French-speaking province of Quebec.

It was also an opportunity to present the performance of Moroccan players in Moroccan and foreign clubs as well as Morocco's strategic location, and sports facilities.

Citizens in the northern Moroccan city of Tangiers also set up a committee to support the Moroccan candidacy, in the first initiative of the kind by citizens.

The national association in charge of promoting the bid has received material support from several Moroccan companies, including cement producers (APC), the Moroccan carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM), BMCE Bank, oil company SOMEPI and the Casablanca water and power supply company LYDEC, Morocco's Telecom company "Maroc-Telecom" and the Moroccan water firm OULMES. These companies will contribute funds in support of the Moroccan candidacy.

Morocco is competing with fellow African nation --South Africa-- Germany, England and Brazil to host the World Cup.

FIFA is to select a winner next July 6.

This is the third time that Morocco bids for hosting the World Cup. The two previous bids (1994, 1998) were lost to the USA and France.

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