"FIFA has no legal grounds to take away the hosts of the FIFA World Cup"

There are no legal grounds for FIFA to take the 2018 World Cup from Russian or the 2022 event from Qatar، says Football’s world-governing body، FIFA.
FIFA’s statement followed comments made to a Swiss newspaper by Domenico Scala، chief of its Compliance Committee.
Scala had said that Russia and Qatar could lose the right to host the World Cup events if evidence is presented that bribes bought the votes that won them the competition to host the World Cup.
Following the comments، FIFA has issued a statement stating that “Russia and Qatar were awarded the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups by democratic vote of the Executive Committee. Based on expert opinions and available facts، FIFA has no legal grounds to take away the hosting of the FIFA World Cup from Russia and Qatar.”
“We will not speculate on possible scenarios and therefore have no further comments for the time being،” the statement said.
Allegations are made claiming that Russia and Qatar has won the hosting of World Cup by bribes and it is alleged that bribery helped determine the hosts of earlier World Cups as well، including South Africa 2010.
Source; CNN
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