“FIFA asked for guarantees and we have fulfilled them all,” Becerra says after Peru’s recall from U17 World Cup headquarters.

Through release On its official website, FIFA has officially announced its decision to move the venue of the 2023 Under-17 World Cup from Peru.

“The decision is made after the failure of the country to implement it obligations and complete the necessary infrastructure to participate in the tournament. Despite good cooperation between FIFA And FPFit has been decided that there is not enough time to secure investment and complete work with the Peruvian government before the start of the competition, ”the message says.

On this subject, in an interview with television peruEducation Minister Oscar Becerra expressed regret over the decision FIFA and assured that, despite the recent weather disasters, the country is able to “fulfill its obligations.”

” FIFA requested state guarantees for a number of things, and we did everything like a country. The only drawback that we have pointed out and which is known all over the world is that, due to natural disasters, it would not be possible to intervene at the stadiums of Elias Aguirre and Miguel Grau in the north of the country,” he said.

At the same time, he stressed that he considered “to hold the championship between Lime And Callao”.

“If we did not offer (…): Alberto Gallardo in Rimak, Miguel Grau in Callao and the one in UNAMSExcept National Stadium (…) However, I understand that FIFA I decided to make it a priority to travel to provincial cities, and we have priorities. And the priority now is to serve the north of the country,” he said.

Similarly, the head of Minedu argued that if FIFA decided to host a sporting event in Peru, the country would be in danger. conditions to fulfill this obligation.

“Even today, we are in a position to meet all the infrastructure commitments required to host the World Cup in Lima and Callao (…) If this week FIFA confirm that we are going to organize the World Cup, we would be in a position to have everything necessary for this to be done within the originally planned time frame, in Lime And Callao”, he stressed.

FPF statement “partially true”

Minutes later, the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) issued a statement emphasizing that the decision of the highest football body was based on “delays in the start of sports infrastructure works”, “partial changes in the commitments signed as a country on behalf of (.. .) Legacy project to be accepted FIFA”,” in addition to the latest weather events in the country.

“Despite the will of state bodies to specify the obligations assumed by the country to FIFAhis executive unit did not complete the processes within the time frame,” the statement said.

In this regard, Minister Becerra believes that the said FPF “partially true”.

“I regret to a certain extent the statements FPF because as if they should have understood that “we did very well, but the government did very badly.” This is partly because the situation in which we found the administration in December was post-war. Nothing was done, there was no progress in the processes, and we took immediate action,” he said.

He also pointed out that these “processes” had to change “even if the headquarters in the north remained, because the reality after the disaster is different from the reality before the disaster.”

“That is why we decided to change the venue to Lime And Callao. So part of it is because it’s not that the administration was bad, it’s that it wasn’t. It was practically abandoned. We had to assume and try to take measures that would lead us to organize a full-fledged World Cup, for which we were ready. Natural disasters forced us to change the venue,” he said.

Finally, the head of Minedu indicated that he would contact FPF find out if more can be done to keep the 2023 Under-17 World Cup headquarters.

“I didn’t talk to FPFI only learned about this statement through the media, and I wanted to get out quickly to clarify some of the relationship. FPF so that they explain to me whether there is something left to do or there is nothing left to do,” he said.