"There is something a little bit grotesque and unfair about all this because we are 100 percent confident that will never be a criminal charge, far less a criminal conviction, against the FIFA
president. But despite this, we have a situation, we have to acknowledge this, where objectively there is damage to both FIFA and to the FIFA president simply because of the existence of this criminal
investigation and we think that's not right, it's not fair. Now we will cooperate fully with the investigation. We want to cooperate because we want the truth to come out and we want it to come out
quickly."
-- FIFA deputy secretary general
Alasdair Bell with a defense of FIFA president
Gianni Infantino, one of the subjects of an ongoing criminal investigation
into meetings Infantino had with Swiss attorney general
Michael Lauber about investigations into soccer corruption. (
Reuters)
