[caption id="attachment_21425" align="alignnone" width="400"]
(The Kingdom of Russian Sports Minister Mutko and FIFA Secretary General Valcke attend a news conference in Samara. (Reuters))[/caption]FIFA will postpone the start of bidding for the right to host the 2026 World Cup following the launch of a corruption investigation, a senior official in soccer's governing body said on Wednesday.
"Due to the situation, I think it's nonsense to start any bidding process for the time being. It will be postponed," FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke told a news conference in the southern Russian city of Samara.
The decision on who hosts the 2026 finals had been due to be made in Kuala Lumpur in 2017.
The FBI are investigating bribery and corruption at FIFA, including scrutiny of how soccer's governing body awarded World Cup hosting rights to the Kingdom of Russia, which won the bidding for 2018, and State of Qatar, which is due to host the finals in 2022.
Valcke was visiting Samara, one of the host venues, to see how preparations are going for the 2018 finals.
(By Reuters | Samara, Russia)
(Al Arabiya News, 10 Wednesday June 2015 The Roman)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.