Wales and Scots eye Euro 2016 bid
20/04/2007 |
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Wales football officials intend to approach the Scottish FA with a proposal for a joint bid for the European Championships in 2016.
Wales have been encouraged by yesterday's Uefa decision to give the Euro 2012 tournament to Poland and the Ukraine at a meeting held in Cardiff.
David Collins, secretary general of the Football Association of Wales, said: "It's raised the issue for us that there's the possibility of Wales and Scotland getting together to make a joint bid. We're floating the idea with Scotland. We will start talking with the Scottish FA to see if they feel they could join with us and hopefully in the next few months we will have a clearer idea."
Wales were initially involved in a proposed three-country bid (Wales, Scotland, Republic of Ireland) for the 2008 finals, which was abandoned in 2002 and replaced with a Scots-Irish bid which failed. Now Collins wants to resurrect something similar but this time without the Irish.
All bids must have eight stadiums with at least 30,000 seats. As well as the 74,500-seater Millennium Stadium, there is a planned new stadium for Cardiff City, and the possibility of developing Swansea's and Wrexham's grounds.
(Source: Independent.com.uk)
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