Finals up for grabs

World Cup 2022 bid no joke, insists Indonesia

May 8, 2009
Indonesia's football federation insists its surprise interest in hosting the 2022 World Cup finals is a serious bid, not a novelty.

Despite its lack of success on the field, the world's most populous Muslim nation would be an ideal host and a serious rival to world football's heavyweights, said Nugraha Besoes, general secretary of the country's football federation.

"This bid is no joke, we've been planning it for a long time - this is a serious bid," Besoes told Reuters in an interview ...

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