The FIFA reported this Friday that it did not detect, through its integrity working group, no fixing in the 64 games that were part of the Qatar World Cup 2022 which ended last Sunday with the victory of Argentina in the penalty shootout over France (3-3 and 4-2).
This group’s mission was to supervise, for the first time in a World Cup, match manipulation, as well as integrity issues.
“As part of his assignment, the working group analyzed monitoring reports from legal betting markets, conducted investigations in various jurisdictions and reviewed surveillance at competition venues for suspicious conduct. No threats of match manipulation were detected in any of the matches played during the competition,” the agency reported.
“The composition of the working group guaranteed that the response to any alert about possible match manipulation and integrity issues during the FIFA World Cup to be competent, coordinated and timely,” he added.
A way of working to pursue the fixings that FIFA launched satisfactorily and whose The next big challenge will be the Women’s World Cup which will take place from July 20 to August 20, 2023 in Australia and New Zealand.
