[WORLD CUP 2022] Qatar 2022 organizers quickly moved to distance themselves from reports of massive payoffs by a firm controlled by Qatari Mohamed Bin Hammam, the former president of the Asian Football Confederation, to firms and associates of Trinidadian JackWarner, the former Concacaf president, but the Daily Telegraph reportcertainly debunks a central argument of Qatar […]
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New Allegations of Corruption in 2022 World Cup Voting Process
A report in the Daily Telegraph
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FIFA executive: keep tournament in Qatar
[WORLD CUP 2022] German Theo Zwanziger, the member of FIFA’s executive committee the most critical publicly of the decisionto award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, testified before a European parliament sub-committee on human rights Thursday that taking the 2022 finals away from Qatar would be counterproductive but addedthat Qatar needs to show it’s an […]
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FIFA: Dates Not Set for 2022 World Cup
FIFA on Wednesday sought to dispel the confusion brought on by secretary general Jerome Valcke’s bizarre claim in a French radio interview that the 2022 World Cup in Qatarwill not be held during the summer months of June and July, insisting that no decision would be made about when the tournament will take place until […]
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French Soccer Player Trapped in Qatar Finally Free to Leave
Zahir Belounis, a French soccer player trapped in Qatar without pay, has finally been granted an exit visa from the Arab country following a two-year struggle. Due to Qatar’ssponsorship system for migrant workers, Belounis was forced to remain in the country for the duration of his contract even though he had parted ways with his […]
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Blatter Slams Media Over Qatar World Cup Criticism
Sepp Blatter on Monday condemned Europe’s media for relentlessly “attacking” 2022 World Cup host Qatar. Speaking at the Asian Football Confederation’sawards in Kuala Lumpur, the FIFA President defended the Arab country’s right to host the tournament. “It is not fair when the international media and especially European media are taking up thefocus of an Arab […]
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“Two of these countries pressured the voting men in FIFA: France and Germany. I think the heads of state of these two countries should also express what they think of this situation.” –FIFA president Sepp Blatter, suggesting it was hypocritical for the European Parliament to urge FIFA to pressure Qatar to address labor conditions at […]
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Blatter: Qatar to be Sole Host of 2022 World Cup
FIFA President Sepp Blatter backtracked on comments made last Friday in which he seemed to suggest that co-hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar was a possibility.”The decision of FIFA is to play in one country and that will be in Qatar,” Blatter told a press conference after meeting with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin […]
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FIFPro Urges Qatar 2022 Summer Boycott
FIFPro, the world soccer players’ union, will urge its members to boycott the 2022 World Cup if it is played in Qatar’s summer, vice president Philippe Piat said Tuesday. FIFA,soccer’s world governing body, has set up a consultation process to decide when the tournament should be played after concerns were expressed about Qatar’s intense heat […]
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Gulati: FIFA Must Change World Cup Bidding Process
Sunil Gulati, U.S. Soccer Federation President and a member of FIFA’s executive committee, says further changes to the World Cup bidding process need to be implemented beforethe United States bids to host another World Cup. Gulati wants FIFA to make it clear in the future if, like with the 2022 tournament, FIFA is seeking to […]