"The campaign was extraordinary in terms of its cost – it proposed to spend £27 million last year alone on communications – and in the way it wielded influence from Abuja to Buenos Aires.
Documents seen by Telegraph Sport reveal a microscopic attention to detail in methods of exerting influence over the members of Fifa’s executive committee, who decided the hosts of the 2022 finals.
There is no suggestion that the bid broke any rules, but the revelations illustrate the extraordinary processes that led to the World Cup being awarded to a desert state with fewer inhabitants than Manchester.
These include:
ÞA briefing note proposing that Qatar extend financial assistance to the Argentine Football Association, which suffered a financial crisis in August 2009. This included a suggestion that the Qatari television company Al Jazeera could purchase television rights. The president of the Argentina FA, Julio Grondona, is a member of the Fifa executive committee."
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That is crazy. There will be no booze, hookers, or anything else for fans to do other that watch "football." How boring is that?
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ReplyDeleteMakes sense. After all muslims are so poor at fair fights, that they'd rather kick balls.
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