FIFA WORLD CUP 2018 LEBANON
Weren’t you bothered this summer after waiting for the biggest
sporting
event in history during Korea/Japan FIFA World cup you had work
during that
month?
Because the games was broadcasted during the morning hours and
you couldn’t
tell your boss you were sick, otherwise where would you’ve got
your money
from to pay your bills, sitting at home?
Or you guys who don’t have a job and wanted to go for a drink at
a pub with
your mates and watch your favorite game, only to be told:
“sorry, we are
not allowed to serve alcohol during morning hours”!.
This years World cup was a disastrous one for us, the fans, the
workers, the
pub owners who weren’t allowed so called “super licences” for
one month to
serve beer before 10 am, and lost customers, and the fans went
back home,
there was no fiesta, no dancing and it was not broadcasted games
to all
countries like France 98’, which by the way was a real carnival,
believe me
I was there, it was madness, pure madness.
I hope that FIFA won’t give China the World cup in 2014, Dato
Peter
Velappan, AFC-president suggested in line with FIFA's rotation
system
,however it is not likely that soon, but in 2018 it’s a
possibility.
Any way, by that time I hope he (Velappan) is long gone from the
football
scene in Asia, and that a new AFC-committee backs a formal bid
from Lebanon
to host the 2018 FIFA World cup as the sole candidate country
from Asia, and
representatives of a new market for Asian football, a
Mediterranean and
western Asian nation.
I would also like to mention that Lebanon is practically located
in Europe,
between 3 continents, and that we have GMT+2 hrs, and that
Europe was called
after a Phoenician princess who married Zeus.
Now many of you may ask: “What has Europe got to do with
anything if Lebanon
is bidding as an Asian country”? ,
A LOT! , First of all look at the European teams performances
during the
World cup, even Brazil with their European based players, they
was tired
from the long season and the Champions League and had to travel
many
time-zones to eastern Asia and suffer from Jetlag and unbearable
humidity
and heat. They won’t suffer from either Jetlag or extreme
weather conditions
in Lebanon, as we are a Mediterranean country, with the same
weather as
Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Greece etc, so those two factors
will favor
those competing nations to vote for Lebanon’s candidacy.
Not least the fans that will spend little or very few euros to
visit
Lebanon, It’s cheap to travel and live in Lebanon if you’re a
foreigner, and
we have similar culture and mentality as several European
people. It’s more
so cost efficient for European countries because the weather in
Spain,
Italy, and France is the same during that part of the year as in
Lebanon.
The most important factor are the SPONSORS, they will push to
locate the
World cup in Lebanon as it’s an Asian country on the record, but
lies in
Euro-zone, so games will be broadcasted to everyone live, in the
afternoon,
when people finish their jobs & schools, and pub’s can serve
beer. Plus the
viewer ratings on TV will skyrocket again after a massive drop
during this
World cup.
Making it more attractive to place commercials on TV, knowing
that the
majority of the people in Europe, Africa, and Asia will be at
home or
available during the afternoon watching the World cup, even in
South & North
America thus generating more money for their respective
companies. Lebanon
FIFA World cup 2018 will be a massive success for crowd
attendance,
TV-ratings , cash money millions for sponsors , huge turnouts
for the
matches with charter airlines storming into Lebanon as we are a
very easily
accessed country by plane, boat and road.
Another exciting prospect is that Lebanon is not affiliated to
the
EU (European union) and we implement a
TAX FREE zone, unlike Euro-zone, so tourists would favor coming
to Lebanon,
instead of going all the way to the FAR, FAR East. They’ve
already been
there and they saw themselves, it’s overrated.
This event would push on every sector in Lebanon, jobs, economy,
tourism,
construction, infrastructure, hotels,
dining & leisure. It will mean goodwill to Lebanon and huge PR.
And Lebanon
would be an ambassador for it as well as all the tourists and
put Lebanon
“back on the map” again. Build new football stadiums, airports,
highways,
and harbors. Then come the first objective: getting this LFA
(Lebanese
football association) SPONSORS in order to record and present a
3D animated
geo-planning, urban-planning, environmental aspects, facilities
and hosting
capabilities. The final version will include maps, economical,
ecological
and technical studies, full review of existing / to be
constructed
facilities. This final bid document will be presented in 2011
during the
FIFA convention.
Put together a DVD presentation comprising about 40-60 minutes
where you
describe all the advantages Lebanon has over all the other bids,
including
Chinas in hosting such an event as I mentioned in this text.
This will cost approximately 1 million $, we can get help from
many wealthy
Lebanese multi-millionaires, businesses and billionaire
philanthropists.
Such as Carlos “slim” Helou who owns TELMEX co, the biggest
telecommunications company in South America, he own half of all
the big
businesses in Mexico and is the richest man in that country and
one of the
richest men in South America.
Then you have Nicolas G. Hayek who owns Swatch, and hold the
majority stocks
of ROLEX, EBEL , Cassio and his computer company Hayek Data
sponsors the FIS
skiing World cup. The CEO of NISSAN motors, Kinko’s photocopy
empire owned
and established by Paul Orfalea, Shaker advertising,the oldest
and most
respected advertising firm in the Midwest USA. Plus lots and
lots of others,
Stephen Yokich, head of union leader. In 1995 he became the
eighth president
of the sixty-year-old UAW, a labor union officially named the
International
Union of United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural
Implement Workers of
America.
Then there's Charles Rozwat - Executive VP of Server
Technologies - ORACLE
CORPORATION, Ned Mansour - president of Mattel, Inc. in 1999,
Mattel is the
maker of Barbie dolls.
And you have Bryan J. Zwan Ph.D. - Space physics Founded
fiber-optic
equipment company Digital Lightwave 1990; IPO 1997. #391 on
Forbes list of
the 400 richest Americans.
Plus Bill Rouhana Jr. - CEO of Winstar
Telecommunications
ETC, ETC..
The FIFA World cup will showcase Lebanon's beauty and its unique
geography
to the whole Asian continent and the rest of the world as well
through the
media coverage; satellite television transmission, local
television coverage
…
Myself and the rest of the people in Lebanon sincerely hope that
you can see
fit to assist this effort through your financial contribution
allowing the
LFA to prepare a viable and serious Bid.
Establish a fund and get these guys to come and sponsor, e-mail
them, get in
contact with them and let them know you want to do something
huge, they will
help you, start from now by announcing officially, you the LFA
if you read
this then say to FIFA and the World, we can organize the biggest
sporting
event in the World, Thank you and God bless Lebanon.
written by: Phil
Hecken
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