Appearances How many appearances each country has made in the World Cup Finals.
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World
Cup History -- Germany 2006
Germany
won the bid for the 2006 World Cup, ahead of South Africa and England.
The Germans were disappointed that England
were bidding to host the 2006 World Cup finals, as they believed there was a gentleman's
agreement...... if Germany supported England for Euro 96, England would return the favour
for WC 2006.
Just three days before the vote
was due to take place, in Zurich on 6th July 2000, Brazil withdrew their application to
host the 2006 World Cup Final (some say because Pelé is a friend of Beckenbauer's).
This left England, Germany, Morocco and South
Africa with competing bids.
World
Cup 2006 -- First Ballot
First
Ballot
The 24 members of the FIFA Executive Committee
all cast their votes to decide who would host 2006 World Cup Finals -- Africa for once, or
Europe yet again.
Germany pulled 10 votes in the first round,
South Africa 6, England 5, and Morocco 3.
No-one abstained and Morocco were eliminated.
World
Cup 2006 -- Second Ballot
Second
Ballot
Three of those who voted for England in the
first round seemed to desert them in favour of South Africa; surely they wouldn't switch
to Germany?
South Africa tied Germany with eleven votes
each.
England only attracted two votes and were
eliminated.
World
Cup 2006 -- Final Vote
Who
would the two votes go to?
There was great speculation as to where the
last two votes for England would go.
If the final ballot tied at 12-12, FIFA
President Sepp Blatter was to decide who would have the honour of hosting the 2006 World
Cup Finals -- he was rumoured to be in favour of South Africa.
The greatest chance to justifiably bring a
World Cup Finals to Africa, for the first time, was squandered.
One of the two remaining votes went to West
Germany and the other -- in the hands of Charles Dempsey, the New Zealand President of the
Oceania Football Confederation -- was not submitted. The abstention as good as a vote for
West Germany.
The media attention Charles Dempsey received,
once his inaction became known to the world, forced him to resign from the FIFA Executive
Committee and all other FIFA committees of which he was a member.
Whatever his real reasons for abstaining and
eventually resigning, the World Cup Finals in 2006 will be hosted in Germany and South
Africa will host the World Cup Finals in 2010.
