{"id":12657,"date":"2013-07-26T12:31:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T07:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=12657"},"modified":"2013-07-26T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T07:04:38","slug":"kerala-to-host-fifa-under-17-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/kerala-to-host-fifa-under-17-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala ready to host FIFA Under-17 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala has expressed its interest in co-hosting the <strong>FIFA Under-17 Football World Cup in 2017<\/strong>. The state has backed the Indian bid for the U-17 World Cup by stating its readiness to be one of the venues for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Oonmen Chandy said that the state government would be signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the <strong>Union Sports Ministry<\/strong> for the conduct of the international event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are agreeable to hosting the event in Kerala. We will soon ink a MoU with the Union Sports Ministry,&#8221; Chief Minister said after a cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Along with India, countries like Republic of Ireland, South Africa, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan participated in the bid to host the tournament. The result will be declared by<strong> December<\/strong> and the chances of India winning the bid are high.<\/p>\n<p>The details such as development of stadia and related infrastructure facilities required for hosting such an international sporting event would be worked out later. While the expenses of hosting the event will be borne by <strong>FIFA<\/strong> and <strong>AIFF<\/strong> (All India Football Federation), the government will provide additional financial assistance. Central government will give Rs.95 crore to the State Governments for the upgradation of stadia and an additional sum of Rs.25 crore is kept as a contingency to ensure smooth conduct of the event.<\/p>\n<p>All India Football Federation has proposed five states as the venues &#8211; Delhi, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Assam, Goa and Kerala. India&#8217;s ambitious bid to host the U-17 Football World Cup in 2017 is already backed by FIFA secretary general <strong>Jerome Valcke.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the construction <a title=\"Thiruvananthapuram all set for its first International stadium\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/thiruvanathapuram-all-set-for-its-first-international-stadium\/\"><strong>International Multi-Purpose Greenfield Stadium at Kariavattom<\/strong><\/a> is progressing at a fast pace. If all goes well, Trivandrumites can witness one of the biggest international sporting events in their hometown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala has expressed its interest in co-hosting the FIFA Under-17 Football World Cup in 2017. The state has backed the Indian bid for the U-17 World Cup by stating its readiness to be one of the venues for the tournament. Chief Minister Oonmen Chandy said that the state government would be signing a Memorandum of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}