Africa: World Cup 2022 - Fifa President Unveils the Secret Behind the Choice of Qatar!

18 September 2013

Here is an eye-opener on the main reason veiling the choice of Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup. In an interview with our colleagues from the German newspaper Die Zeit, an interview to be published tomorrow, Thursday, the FIFA President Sepp Blatter dropped. He clearly recognizes that the choice of countries was motivated and influenced by political and economic interests.

"There was direct political influence. Some European leaders have advised their members who could vote to vote for Qatar, because they were linked to the country by major economic interests", he revealed. Blatter unpacks again a few days after acknowledging that the choice of Qatar was a mistake.

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