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Time June 8
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FIFA Compliance Head Says Russia, Qatar World Cups Could Be Taken Away'
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'ZURICH — Russia and Qatar could be stripped of their World Cup hosting rights if evidence emerges of bribery in the bidding process, the independent chairman of FIFA’s audit and compliance committee told a Swiss newspaper.'
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The FBI’s investigation of bribery and corruption at FIFA includes scrutiny of how soccer’s governing body awarded World Cup hosting rights to Russia and Qatar, a U.S. law enforcement official told Reuters this week. Domenico Scala told SonntagsZeitung that FIFA the two countries could lose the hosting rights should evidence emerge of bribery in the bidding process.
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"If evidence should emerge that the awards to Qatar and Russia only came about thanks to bought votes, then the awards could be invalidated," Scala said in an interview published on Sunday. "This evidence has not yet been brought forth."
Russia and Qatar have previously denied wrongdoing in the conduct of their bids for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, which were not the subject of charges announced by U.S. prosecutors last week against FIFA officials.
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Twenty Eighteen is much closer chronologically than 2022 and so therefore it is much less likely that Russia will lose its award as it would be that much more difficult for a country to prepare for the FIFA World Cup in just three years.
Preparing for a World Cup in three years even for the United Kingdom or United States with all their football stadiums, as rumoured; or other very viable Western European sites such as Germany, Spain, Italy or France would be a very major task.
As well, I deduce that because of politics that the Western powers and FIFA are influenced by such, would not want to further politically alienate Russia by embarrassing that nation by taking away the World Cup.
I would therefore be very surprised if Russia has the FIFA 2018 World Cup taken away.
However, due to the poor situation with worker's rights, (see previous post) and the fact that Qatar is a non-Western and non-European nation and that the FIFA 2022 World Cup was switched from the traditional Spring-Summer to Autumn-Winter; I would not be at all surprised if Qatar has the FIFA 2022 World Cup taken away.
And awarded to England, the United Kingdom, the United States or a Western European country.
And yes, the United States along with Switzerland is taking the lead in the investigations...
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On a personal note, after approximately five years of various sleep apnea treatments I have reached a goal of weighing 200 pounds.
I am 5 foot 10, 200 pounds, solid and muscular. I have sort of MLB homerun hitter look...no steroids required.
I do not look anything like a FIFA footballer, but more like one of the security forces on the sidelines.
I shall continue with the treatments for now and thankfully once I lose the weight it stays off.
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