“And so we would have the World Cup in the two biggest political powers”, he told Tass.
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FIFA’s Ad-hoc Electoral Committee confirmed the list of candidates on Wednesday with former Trinidad and Tobago captain Nakhid not among them, despite his claims to have received the necessary five nominations from football federations.
Blatter is serving a 90-day ban alongside Uefa chief Michel Platini – although both deny any wrongdoing. In fact, a late surge in the number of votes handed the 2022 World Cup hosting rights to Qatar, instead of the U.S. as had been previously decided.
The result of the suspensions will be determined by pending investigations by the ethics committee. Namely, Blatter discussed Platani’s role in voting to decide the location of the 2022 World Cup, which ultimately went to Qatar.
Platini is now suspended from all football-related activities for 90 days as part of a clampdown on corruption and fraud at the heart of the FIFA operation. “The Arabic region needs such a tournament for the youth of the Arab region and I think we deserve to have one”, the foreign minister told the host of Al Jazeera’s UpFront, Mehdi Hasan.
“England against Russian Federation (the 2018 hosts), and the United States, who lost the (2022) World Cup to Qatar”.
Blatter said a lunch between Platini, senior Qatari officials and then French president Nicolas Sarkozy led to a change of heart by the UEFA president.
In the wake of the ongoing Federation Internationale de Football Association scandal and investigation into widespread corruption throughout worldwide soccer, Johnson says the tournament was always going to be given to Russia and believes the FA should try to recoup the heavy costs of an unfair and “rigged” process.
Blatter has served as FIFA’s president since 1998.
“No, you will never lose the World Cup”.
Dyke said: “We will look into detail at what Mr Blatter says”.
“In the end the organisation that validated and proceeded with the payment suspended me four years later. He started it, but then it became politics”, he said. “If he has the right to run we will support him”. In 2010 he approached the financial director of Federation Internationale de Football Association by saying, ‘Hey, listen, Federation Internationale de Football Association owes us money.’ I was informed about that and I said, okay let him make an invoice of this what we owe him.
“We have made a few contract where he got a few money, but not one million. And this money was not paid for any other reasons”.
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Prince Ali, Musa Bility, Jerome Champagne, Gianni Infantino, Michel Platini, Sheikh Salman and Tokyo Sexwale have been announced as candidates.
