As the bet on world cup hosting arises, football rumors about selling votes and pre-fixing results have emrged massively throughout the last few days… combined Spanish and Portuguese bid to host the 2018 World Cup told the sports news reporters and football live TV channels that the speculation about a pact with Qatar, that’s also bidding to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, doesn’t aim to affect the voting process, as reported by several football sites... Furthermore, football betting sites and sports bookmakers had also expressed their dissatisfaction regarding similar pacts, reflecting it to the lack of trust that’s caused from a soccer fan’s perspective.

FIFA, the World football governing body, started an investigating campaign regarding the speculation and claims of conspiracy in order to swap votes for the 2018 bet on World Cup hosting and for the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament. Note that in case the investigation comes up with a positive result regarding a Qatar – Spain – Portugal deal to exchange votes, all 3 nations will be banned from hosting te World Cup.

Couple of weeks ago, FIFA had temporarily suspended 2 of its executive members, regarding a football rumor regarding a vote-selling matter; in a stunning sports report in the Sunday Times, the 2 committee members were stated to have offered to sell their votes.

Miguel Angel Lopez, chief executive of the Spain Portugal World Cup betting process to host the world cup, told the sports news and football reporters that " Iberian bid already told FIFA last Wednesday that it does not have any agreement with any other bidding nation.” The World Cup 2018 spokesperson added that they had offered FIFA a full cooperation to complete the investigation.

FIFA executive committee is expected to announce the hosts for the 2018 World Cup tournament and for the 2022 World Cup tournament on the 2^nd of December, from Zurich.

2018 World Cup Bid includes Russia, England, Spain-Portugal and Belgium-Netherlands; on the 2022 side of the story, Japan, Australia, South Korea, USA and Qatar have all placed their wagers and bet on World Cup 2022 hosting honor.