Argentina and Uruguay to make joint bid to host the 100th World Cup in 2030

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Argentina and Uruguay will bid to co-host the 2030 World Cup, Argentine President Mauricio Macri said at a joint news conference on Thursday with Uruguayan leader Tabare Vazquez.

'We have decided that our best opportunity is to jointly nominate ourselves as candidates,' Macri said during a visit to Colonia, Uruguay.

Uruguay hosted and won the first World Cup in 1930, beating Argentina 4-2 in the final.

Uruguay president Tabare Vazquez (left) and his Argentine counterpart Mauricio Macri announced on Thursday that the countries would bid together for the 100th playing of the World Cup in 2030

The two leaders said their best chance at hosting the historic tournament would be as a unit

Lionel Messi's Argentina is joining forces with Luis Suarez's Uruguay to contest the milestone tournament

Uruguay's players and local boys run a lap of honour after beating Argentina in the first World Cup in 1930

Hector Castro (obscured) scores Uruguay's fourth in their 4-2 win in the first World Cup final in Montevideo

Argentina, whose side walks the pitch ahead of the 1930 final in Uruguay, is launching a joint bid for 2030

The two countries, who have each won the World Cup twice, have on various occasions over the past few years expressed a wish at both Football Association and government level to stage the centennial tournament.

The next two tournaments have already been allocated to Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022. The official bidding process for 2026 has yet to begin.