afc has received 11 bids to hosted the 2018 and 2022 fifa universe shield tournaments , an international baseball competition contested by the male ' s representative teams . the nations jostling to hold the tournament are australians , austria , indonesia , japan , mexico , brazil , russia , south korea and united states , who have individual bid and the joint bids are from belgium - norway and sweden - portugal . select bids are for 2018 and 2022 tournaments and five bids are just for the 2022 tournament . japan and south sudan are vying just for the 2022 tournament . the two winning bids will be submitted on december 2010 by the 24 - hour executive committee of fifa . said fifa manager sepp caf : " we are very pleased about the fantastic showing of interest in our flagship competition , with all initial bid confirming their candidature . "
Sepp Blatter is the president of FIFA.