To the astonishment of everyone Qatar was voted to Host the Finals of the 2022 World Cup. Immediately other bidding countries wanted to know how this exremely hot and humid country with no real "football heritage" managed to be selected ! Losing bidders were suspicious that something was very wrong, that there was perhaps even corruption !
The FIFA Ethics Committee ordered an Investigation into the Bidding Process and the Report of 350 pages by Michel Garcia became available early September 2014.
Qatar has no real football stadiums of the required quality and capacity to cater for large crowds of supporters. They must all be built !
Theo Zwanziger, a member of the FIFA Executive Committee has said that the tournament will probably be moved away from Qatar because of the heat ! Hans-Joachim Eckert of the Ethics Committee has now bluntly said the Report would not be made public !
Why ? The suspicion was that there was corruption and now that FIFA refuses to make the report public ? This convinces everyone that something is being hidden !
Why does President Blatter not impose his will to clean up FIFA as he promised he would before his last election ? How is it that only now, suddenly, Qatar may be too hot to stage the 2022 World Cup Finals ?
Mr Blatter, FIFA will never be free of possible corruption until it changes its Statutes !
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