Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter: Awarding Qatar 2022 World Cup was a 'mistake' - Football365

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Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter: Awarding Qatar 2022 World Cup was a ‘mistake’Ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter has admitted it was “a mistake” to award the 2022 World Cup finals to Qatar.

Blatter was president of world football’s governing body when the 2022 finals were controversially awarded to Qatar in 2010.“At the time, we actually agreed in the Executive Committee that Russia should get the 2018 World Cup and the USA that of 2022. “Thanks to the four votes of Platini and his team, the World Cup went to Qatar rather than the United States. It’s the truth.”

“When discussions about the conditions on the construction sites in Qatar arose after the award, we in FIFA supplemented the rules in 2012,” he said.

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