With investigations on FIFA scandal ongoing , there is a possibility 2018 World Cup and 2022 World Cup will not be held in Russia and Qatar, respectively.
The world's football governing body is caught in the middle of bribery and corruption accusations with a number of top officials arrested a few weeks ago. Most of the allegations are centered on the granting of hosting rights on FIFA World Cup to South Africa in 2010, Russia for 2018 and Qatar for 2022.
FIFA official Domenico Scala told Reuters if these countries are proven involved in the ongoing FIFA scandal, then they will be stripped off of the rights to stage the world's biggest football event in their soil.
"If evidence should emerge that the awards to Qatar and Russia only came about thanks to bought votes, then the awards could be invalidated," Scala told SonntagsZeitung in an interview published on Sunday.
"This evidence has not yet been brought forth."
FIFA scandal was fully blown last couple of weeks after seven senior officials of the organizations were nabbed during a high profile dawn raids at a Zurich hotel.
These guys were arrested ahead of the FIFA election which eventually won by Sepp Blatter who has been in the post for almost two decades. Blatter though resigned just few days after being proclaimed as the winner, raising more suspicions about the ongoing corruptions and bribery in the circle.
Also being looked at in the ongoing investigations regarding FIFA scandal is the 2010 South Africa World Cup. An investigation by The Sunday Times claimed Morocco won the bidding instead of the African country. Bhamjee, the former Exco member from Botswana, said there were recording videos that will prove this claim.
"After talking with everybody,' Bhamjee is quoted as saying, 'whose votes went where - we're all colleagues, you know. And then we found out that actually Morocco won by two votes."
"Please this is very secret."
