Argentine Julio Grondona, the senior vice president on the FIFA executive committee, told Fox Sports Argentina he voted for Spain/Portugal to host the 2018World Cup and — surprise — the United States, not Qatar, to host the 2022 World Cup.
It’s been assumed Grondona voted for Qatar as part of a pact Qatar struck with supporters of the2018 Spain/Portugal bid on the executive committee. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, a former employee of the Qatar 2022 bid committee
Grondona denounced the report, but two lawyers (backed by anti-Grondona forces in Argentine soccer) have since gone to court to