"It's something on the back of the Beyond Football plan we put out recently, these sorts of bold pioneering type initiatives are exactly what we envisaged around that plan so it's something we would completely agree with and be behind.
"There's a thousand reasons why not but that shouldn't stop you from at least pursuing the concept of the idea and actually teasing out whether or not it's a realistic prospect once you get to those final pieces which is getting up to FIFA level to get the tick of approval.
"Yes it's at an embryonic stage but again it's a bold visionary initiative."
Snedden, the man credited with making the Rugby World Cup a success four years ago, believes the goal is attainable and says the country's success in hosting two major sports events in the past four years demonstrates it has the capability and infrastructure to support such a massive undertaking, though realistically it would be done with Australia.
Australia just hosted a very successful Asian Cup tournament while New Zealand are out to prove their hosting abilities with the under-20 World Cup next month.
De Jong says that works in New Zealand's favour.
"The Under 20 World Cup is the second biggest in FIFA's stable so it would be a perfect dress rehearsal to do a really good job on that tournament and then look beyond that.
"We've held two FIFA tournament's previously. FIFA look at us as being good at events but there's also a whole lot of other stuff that has to go on, we would say, around the infrastructure of football itself in New Zealand, to support this type of bid, around the club and administrative structures of football in New Zealand would be a part of that, to strengthen that to make sure that when FIFA do come and scrutinize what sits behind any bid, that they would be comfortable with that."
Snedden, also the former head of the Tourism Industry Association, said he could see a scenario where New Zealand hosted two or three of the eight pools and some knockout matches, with the rest being hosted across the Tasman.
De Jong believes a possible it would appeal to both Australia and FIFA but many stakeholders would need to get behind it first.
"The Aussies have already shown they want to take the World Cup by putting a bid in last time. The differentiating factor here is the Oceania factor and that a joint New Zealand-Australia bid is probably the only way that Oceania would get a taste of hosting the World Cup.
"So I think that has a massive advantage for any bid, because FIFA have already shown they like to spread the tournaments around, typically they rotate the World Cup through the confederations and this would be the only way that Oceania would get a look in. That would differentiate it from the last bid.
De Jong said after falling short in a bid for the 2022 World Cup, in which Australia gained just one vote to be eliminated in the first round of voting, the Australian FFA might have a tough sell to launch another bid.
"If they want to host the event...It would probably come down to something...FFA and the Australian government would be another stakeholder because we would have a massive job to convince local stakeholders in the game in general here, local government and government, and then it is a case of going over to Australia and them doing the same with their government and local government and FFA, everyone coming together and then pitching to FIFA, which isn't easy either."
De Jong understands a proposal of New Zealand co-hosting a World Cup may sound unrealistic and admits a lot needs to happen for New Zealand to even be considered but thinks it is worth investigating.
"You'd look at what capacity we'd have to host how much of the World Cup. The scale of the event is pretty big in comparison to some of the other events that we've done. So it's a matter of being realistic but there's a lot of water to go under the bridge before those decisions are made.
"The first thing is for people not to just dismiss the concept. That's the key thing because once people get their head around 'could we do it, is it possible?', yes, then it's the how. But the first thing is to not dismiss the concept and that's probably the biggest hurdle that we would have."
