English FA Criticizes Blatter Over World Cup Comments
Dyke also said there was no planning document in existence for England to step in at short notice and host the World Cup should it be taken away from Russian Federation or Qatar for any reason.
Michel Platini – UEFA president.
Attiyah also said that workers’ rights “were improving” in Qatar, responding to sustained criticism of the nation’s treatment of labourers who are building the infrastructe and stadiums in the Gulf nation.(The full interview will be aired at 19:30 GMT on Friday).
The election comes as football’s world governing body is engulfed in a massive corruption probe that has resulted in 90-day bans for Platini and long-standing president Sepp Blatter, who is standing down after 17 years in the position. The president of France later swung the ’22 World Cup to Qatar, a Persian Cup state.
Platini – the one-time favourite for the job – was suspended from football for 90 days pending a disciplinary hearing into a £1.3million payment signed off by outgoing president Blatter in 2011. I think the rivals [of Russia] including England are not content with this pro-Russia decision.
He said,”Russia will never lose the 2018 World Cup”.
Blatter, who has been president of Federation Internationale de Football Association since 1998, said politics was behind “attacks” on him which followed the indictment of 14 soccer officials and sports marketing executives by U.S prosecutors in May.
“There’s nothing that Mr Blatter says that surprises me much really”, Dyke told a Select Committee in London.
“Fifa is a corrupt organisation – and has been for 40 years”. “I’m sure the football associations from all the countries bidding for 2018 will be digging up their individual costs and I think Fifa have been a bit nervous about individual FAs bringing actions against them”.
“Regardless of how it was spent, when it was taxpayers’ money and when the process was as broken and as fixed as Sepp Blatter says, then the money should be recovered on behalf of the taxpayers”, Mersiades told BBC Radio 5 live.
“The electoral committee decided not to consider Mr Nakhid’s application as it did not fulfill the required five declarations of support”, said a statement.
“We have made a few contract where he got a few money, but not one million”.
“The other confederations were afraid that UEFA would take over everything because they have the money and the players”, said Blatter.
The seven candidates for the February 26 election are: Platini, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Gianni Infantino, Tokyo Sexwale, Musa Bility, Jerome Champagne and Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa.