England will not bid to host the World Cup until Fifa is rid of corruption, Minister for Sport Hugh Robertson has said.
|||England will not bid to host the World Cup until Fifa is rid of corruption, Minister for Sport Hugh Robertson said on Thursday.
Football’s world governing body have been beset by allegations of bribery and mis-management, with four executive committee members suspended since October.
Much of the focus has been on Qatar winning the right to host the 2022 World Cup, with an email from Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke suggesting the tournament was “bought”.
Sepp Blatter ran unopposed for the presidency after his rival and the subject of the email, Mohamed Bin Hammam, was suspended by the ethics committee. Since then, Blatter has come under increasing pressure to make the organisation more transparent.
England entered the 2018 ballot, in which they received just two of a possible 22 votes as Russia secured the World Cup for the first time. Speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, Robertson said: “I think it is very clear, both from our experience of the last bid and from what has happened subsequently, that it is an organisation in need of radical structural reform.
“The principles of transparency and accountability must govern that. The newly elected president (Blatter) has set the process in motion and we will watch that very carefully, but until that process is complete I doubt we’d consider a future bid.”
The ballot for the 2026 World Cup will not be held for more than two years with Fifa set to introduce a new system in which all 208 nations vote, instead of the 24-man executive committee. - Daily Mail
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/england-won-t-bid-for-world-cup-1.1084504
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