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NEW YORK (AP) - The United States intends to bid for the 2018 World Cup, hoping to return soccer's quadrennial championship to the country that produced the highest attendance in the event's history.
"A lot of things make it attractive. In U.S. soccer many things have happened over the last couple of decades: the success in '94 is a great starting point and everything since then," U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati said Tuesday.
"All of the reasons FIFA chose the U.S. in '94 have been validated: the growth of sport in the U.S. has been terrific since then; the number of potential venues in the U.S. has grown exponentially since then; world class stadiums; infrastructure; growth of the game; we're much more involved in the international soccer scene than 20 years ago."
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