Barry Cartman Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Quote Former FIFA-chairman Sepp Blatter admits the World Cup shouldn't be held in Qatar during an interview with Tages-Anzeiger. 'The country is too small, football and the World Cup are too big for it. The decision was a mistake. The executive committee decided that the 2018 World Cup would go to Russia and the 2022 World Cup to the US. It would be a sign of peace, having to countries with a long history of political clashes hosting the World Cup back to back.' 'A week before the FIFA congress in 2010 Michel Platini called me to tell that our plan wouldn't work. He was invited to the presidential palace of French president Sarkozy, who had just had lunch with the prince of Qatar. Sarkozy told Platini: "Look what you and your UEFA colleagues could do for Qatar if they host the World Cup." I asked him: "So what now?" ' 'He told me: "Sepp, what would you do if your president asked this of you?" I told him I couldn't relate, because we don't have a president in Switzerland. It worked out like they wanted, because of Platini's 4 votes the World Cup went to Qatar instead of the US, that is the truth.' 'Of course it was about money as well. Six months later Qatar bought fighter jets from France for 14.6 billion dollars.' Shock! They're all corrupt bastards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coulthard's Jaw Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Is this from the Netflix documentary? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Cartman Posted November 8, 2022 Author Share Posted November 8, 2022 Just now, Coulthard's Jaw said: Is this from the Netflix documentary? Appears to be from an interview with a Swiss newspaper Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citizen Sandman Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Criminal says crime is bad 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMLF Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Qatar hosting the WC is obviously a mistake, hopefully next time an AFC country hosts it, it will be China or Australia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomyorkessoul Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Why China? Their human rights record is even worse than Qatar's. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMLF Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Big country (useful as the WC is being expanded to 48 teams), enough big stadiums, they have done a good job hosting other big events before. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 Australia, South Korea and Japan all bid for this. Could have easily given it to one of them if they wanted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
georginho_juventusygr Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 Quote 'Of course it was about money as well. Six months later Qatar bought fighter jets from France for 14.6 billion dollars.' Can we disqualify France? Also still need to be disqualified after that handball, remember? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElJuanvito Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 To be fair, I think he voted for the USA bid that time. Still a crook, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackter Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 On 08/11/2022 at 23:42, PMLF said: Big country (useful as the WC is being expanded to 48 teams), enough big stadiums, they have done a good job hosting other big events before. Which definitely makes up for all the murdering. Nice call. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oche balboa Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 https://www.reuters.com/article/soccer-world-qatar-idUKLH69519220090517 - From 2009 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aitutaki Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 On 09/11/2022 at 09:16, PMLF said: Qatar hosting the WC is obviously a mistake, hopefully next time an AFC country hosts it, it will be China or Australia. No thanks to China who put Qatar in the shade on rights abuses, and are gearing up for their Taiwan invasion Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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