Staging games in South America makes sense, given it's the centenary tournament
...but given it's a centenary tournament, why not announce it as such years in advance so we avoid half the tournament being on one side of the Atlantic and the other half being on the other?
Right. Just do the whole bloody thing in South America. Even that is difficult enough as the continent is vast and transport links not at all simple. The world cup in Brazil was the litmus test for that and that was just one country!
Spain/Portugal and Morocco isn't so crazy as distances are manageable and transport well established. But Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay followed by crossing the Atlantic?! Absolute nonsense.