Believing that “football and the World Cup are too big for Qatar”, Sepp Blatter regretted the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to this country, in an interview with the Swiss press.
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“A mistake”. This is the term used by Sepp Blatter in an interview granted, Tuesday, November 8, to the titles of the Swiss group Tamedia, including the daily Tages Anzeiger, to qualify the attribution of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
“Football and the World Cup are too big for Qatar (…) I was responsible for it at the time as President of FIFA“, has indicated the Swiss, who led the body of world football between 1998 and 2015. After having assured his preference for the United States as host country, instead of Qatar, to succeed Russia in 2018, the man 86 spoke about the change in country selection criteria in 2012.
“Since, social considerations and human rights are taken into account for each candidate country for the organization of a World Cup”explained Sepp Blatter, acquitted at first instance by Swiss justice in mid-June, in the same way as Michel Platini, for suspicion of fraud in the exercise of his functions at FIFA in 2015.