The former president of FIFA assured that it was “a serious mistake”, spoke about a possible circulation of money and spoke of a key man for the election.
Joseph Blatter, former president of FIFA, made strong statements in relation to the World Cup in Qatar, assuring that it was a “Serious mistake” and express that there could be money involved for the election.
Blatter’s explosive statements about the 2022 Qatar World Cup
“I was disappointed by the victory of Qatar”, Blatter assured in an interview published this Sunday in the digital edition of the diario francés Le Monde, in which he considered that the former French president Nicolas sarkozy He was the one who intervened so that the emirate achieved that competition.
Blatter, who was seen forced to resign on June 2, 2015 over a corruption scandal, four days after being re-elected as FIFA president, considers that Sarkozy convinced then-UEFA president Michel Platini to support Qatar and not to the United States, as they had agreed up to that point.
Blatter pointed out that there were many questions about the Qatari World Cup, such as the size of the country or the dates on which the competition should be held.: “I thought that so much danger would not jeopardize our agreement in principle to attribute the two World Cups to Russia and the United States.”
Blatter and a tremendous statement about the election of Qatar 2022: “It is very possible that the money circulates and that someone puts it in their pocket”
According to the former FIFA president, Sarkozy’s intervention “it changed everything” and did not rule out that “money will circulate” throughout that operation, without directly accusing anyone.
“In decisions as important as the attribution of a World Cup it is very possible that the money circulates and that someone puts it in their pocket”, said Blatter, who considered that the investigation opened by FIFA to detect it was not “strict enough”.
“Without Sarkozy’s last minute intervention on Platini, Qatar would never have had the World Cup”, said the former president of FIFA, who linked this support to the purchase of PSG by a sovereign fund of the emirate already “The major economic activities between Qatar and France”.
“It is the first time that a political intervention changes a great decision of soccer”, said Blatter, while reiterating that “On the social and climatic level, it was a big mistake to give the World Cup to Qatar.”
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