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Inside WORLD : FIFA to release statement Thursday on WCup probe
ZURICH (AP) — FIFA says its ethics committee chairman will release a statement Thursday on the investigation into the bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
FIFA says ethics chief Hans-Joachim Eckert will issue a statement at 0900 GMT following an investigation by prosecutor Michael Garcia into the process that led to the awarding of the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar.
FIFA has been under pressure to publish Garcia's report in full. But Eckert has ruled that out, saying his statement would contain "an overview of the investigation report, a summary of the main findings, conclusions and recommendations of the report, as well as a brief evaluation of the same."
Subjects Sports, FIFA World Cup, Men's soccer, International soccer Locations Qatar, Middle East
Photo: APThe sports minister for 2022 World Cup host Qatar, Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser al-Ali, speaks in an Associated Press interview in Doha, Qatar, on Monday Nov. 10, 2014. He claimed Qatar’s World Cup will set a benchmark of excellence that will be “almost impossible to beat" and said the Gulf nation will implement labor reforms in the "next few months," responding to widely documented abuses of its migrant workforce.
Photo: APWolfgang Niersbach, President of the German Soccer Association (DFB), right, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, left, and Niersbach's partner Marion Popp, center, pose for the media as they arrive for the premiere of the movie 'Die Mannschaft' (The Team) in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov. 10, 2014.
