World Cup 2018 Votes For Sale

Vice President of the FIFA, Mr Reynald Temarii said he welcomes a "full and thorough investigation" regarding the football rumors spread in the newspapers and football magazines regarding his offer to sell his vote for the 2018 World Cup voting process. Note that the FIFA World Cup 2018 bid had earlier faced a drama, by seeing the England football federation pulling out from the race.

Sunday Times newspaper stated the that the OFC’s president (Oceania Football Confederation) Temarii and Nigerian federation spokesman Amos Adamu had offered to sell their votes during the bid on the FIFA World Cup hosting process… note that both FIFA members were accused of lobbying in favor of an American group.

The Sunday Times added that Adamu was taped and filmed as he asked for £500000 for a personal project while Tahiti’s member, Temarii, asked for an approximate sum of £1.42 million for the purpose of funding a sports academy within the OFC's headquarters.

Referring to trusted informers and to the Sunday Times interviewers, OFC President and FIFA Vice President Reynald Temarii are expected to collaborate totally with the ethics of FIFA and with the FIFA General Secretary. The same quote was acknowledged by the OFC’s statement issued a few hours earlier.

OFC stated that it would not make any comments until the investigation and the FIFA reports are done; brief, OFC will be reasonable enough to await FIFA Ethics Committee’ release. FIFA board will make its decision to the live football news reporters and to the football world on the 2nd of December from Zurich about which nations will host the 2018 world cup and the 2022 World Cup. The picks will be processed by the 24-member executive committee.

A football speculations’ source, near the FIFA executive leaked a valuable info that both Adamu and Temarii could get suspended or sacked off the FIFA committee if the claims are proven rightful; a FIFA spokesperson, concerned about the issues of pre-fixing football scores and football betting scandals, affirmed that "FIFA will not allow anyone or anything to damage the reputation of the voting procedure and it could be that 22 men might make the decision, not 24.”

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England, that was running one of the favorite hosting campaigns to tackle the World Cup matches onto its football stadiums, openned the way to Russia, Spain/Portugal and to Belgium/Netherlands, after withdrawing their football bid to host the FIFA major soccer tournament.

As for the 2022 World Cup, United States, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Qatar are nominated to horde the once in 4 years football game.

Back to the FIFA investigation about selling the votes, FIFA president Sepp Blatter urged the FIFA executive members to remain silent as the investigation is launched. 

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