Former Germany international Franz Beckenbauer, the only man that has won the World Cup as both a captain and a coach, faces the prospect of being fined for failing to assist theinvestigation into alleged corruption at FIFA. According to the German newspaper Die Welt, FIFA’s ethics commission found that Beckenbauer refused to answer questions from […]
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Report: Fresh Allegations Taint Russia's 2018 Bid
Over the weekend, the Sunday Times published new stories based on the millions of emails, documents and bank transfers it gained access to showing that former FIFA executive committee memberMohammed bin Hammam paid out over $5 million to win support for Qatar’s bid to land the 2022 World Cup. However, one of the stories claimed […]
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FIFA sponsors start to get antsy
[QATAR 2022] That “drip, drip, drip” you’re hearing is the Sunday Times’ expose into Qatari Mohammed bin Hamman‘s effortsto garner support on FIFA’s executive committee for the successful Qatar 2022 bid. Following the second week of reporting by the Sunday Times into the millions of electronic documents it gainedaccess, four official FIFA partners issued statements […]
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FIFA Investigator Ignores Times Report on Qatar 2022
FIFA chief investigator Michael Garcia has decided not to consider the millions of documents obtained by the Sunday Times that allegedly tie the Qatar 2022 bidding committee to a fresh waveof bribery allegations surrounding the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to the Middle Eastern country. Garcia has spent more than a year and $10 […]
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Report: FIFA Under Pressure to Rerun 2022 World Cup Bid
FIFA is under mounting pressure to rerun the bidding process for the 2022 World Cup after the Sunday Times produced documents that showed that former FIFA executive committee memberMohamed bin Hammam paid $5 million in cash and gifts to African officials in a bid to help secure Qatar’s bid for the tournament from Africa’s four […]
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Sunday Times leaked secret bribery documents
[QATAR 2022] The most amazing aspect of the Sunday Times’ investigation into the Qatar 2022 bribery scandal is the enormity of the treasure trove. It says it wasleaked “hundreds of millions of secret documents” in Qatari Mohamed Bin Hammam‘s systematic campaign to win support for Qatar 2022 in Africa to the tune of morethan $5 […]
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Blatter: Qatar 2022 a 'Mistake'
In an interview with Swiss TV station RTS, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said that awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was a ‘mistake’. “Of course, it was a mistake. Youknow, one comes across a lot of mistakes in life,” Blatter said, adding: “The Qatar technical report indicated clearly that it is too hot in […]
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Qatar begins down-sizing World Cup plans
Qatar plans to scale back plans for the World Cup it is scheduled to host in 2022. Ghanim Al Kuwari, the Qatar 2022 organizing committee’s senior managerfor projects, said at a conference in Doha on Saturday that it plans to build eight stadiums, not 12 as originally announced. Before 2022, Qatar plans to spend more […]
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Report: FIFA Plotted to Throw Out Ethics Enforcer
The Guardian is reporting on Tuesday that members of FIFA’s executive committee considered a plot to remove Michael Garcia, the former FBI investigator who now heads theinvestigatory chamber of FIFA’s ethics committee, after he turned up unannounced in Zurich last week to speak to those members of the executive committee who were around during the […]
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“On what grounds has somebody who has not been involved in football have any influence on the decision of a World Cup?” — Daryan Warner, sonof Jack Warner, on a report that he received payments as part of $2 million in payments from a firm controlled by Mohamed BinHammam, to Jack Warner, his sons and […]