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FA Chair Greg Dyke Says Qatar Could Still Be Stripped Of 2022 World Cup

FA Chair Greg Dyke claimed that Qatar’s hopes of hosting the 2022 World Cup are "still under threat," five years on from what he calls "the worst moment in FIFA’s history," according to Oliver Kay of the LONDON TIMES. It was on Dec. 2, 2010 when the FIFA exec committee voted for the '18 and '22 tournaments "to be held in Russia and Qatar respectively." FIFA has since "been embroiled in corruption allegations." FIFA maintains that the tournaments "will go ahead as planned in Russia and Qatar" -- the latter taking place between Nov. 21 and Dec. 18, 2022 because of the inhospitable summer heat in the tiny Gulf nation -- but Dyke suggested that "doubts remain." Dyke: "The truth is that I suspect it was the worst moment in FIFA’s history and that it will be living with the consequences for at least another seven years. If the Swiss criminal investigation demonstrates that there was corruption, then there still has to be doubt about whether the World Cup will be in Qatar. I personally still don’t think it is certain. ... If you look back now there was absolutely no legitimate reason for awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar" (LONDON TIMES, 12/1).

'UNIVERSAL SUSPICION': INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL's Andrew Warshaw wrote the man running the 2018 World Cup in Russia admits the current corruption scandal that has engulfed FIFA has led to an atmosphere of "universal suspicion" about how his country won the vote but that it must not be allowed to overshadow the tournament. Russia World Cup Organizing Committee CEO Alexei Sorokin said that whoever takes over from FIFA President Sepp Blatter at the end of February "should make it his business to put the focus back on the first World Cup to be staged in eastern Europe." Despite "persistent claims by Russia that their campaign was clean, Swiss investigators are leaving no stone unturned probing possible corruption linked to the 2018 and 2022 bid process." Sorokin said, "I admit that none of this adds to the benefit and value of the World Cup. But we have to work under the current circumstances. I have no doubt that it will subside so that we can organize the World Cup in an atmosphere of celebration instead of one of universal suspicion" (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 12/1). ZEE NEWS reported FIFA's "much-abused leadership on Wednesday starts a key meeting on reform." Only seven of the 24 member execs "from the ill-fated 2010 vote remain on the team that will start to discuss proposals for change in Zurich on Wednesday and Thursday." The team will discuss reforms "such as age and term limits for FIFA presidents, how to vet the powerful continental confederation chiefs on the executive and make the world body more transparent." Many critics -- including remaining candidates for the FIFA presidency and top sponsors like Coca Cola and Visa -- said that "the world body has not learned enough of the lessons from the 2010 vote that still reverberates" (ZEE NEWS, 12/1).

FIFA's ExCo: Where Are They Now?
Sepp Blatter
provisionally suspended
Michel Platini
provisionally suspended
Jack Warner
banned for life
Julio Grondona
died
Chung Mong-Joon
banned for six years
Issa Hayatou
acting FIFA president
Angel Maria Villar Llona
fined
Geoff Thompson
retired
Michel D'Hooghe
still there
Ricardo Terra Teixeira
under FBI investigation
Mohamed bin Hammam
banned for life
Senes Erzik
still there
Source: (IRISH EXAMINER, 12/1).

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