Sunday Times: Qatar "waged a campaign to discredit its competitors" to organize the 2022 World Cup

According to an article published in the Sunday Times, the team responsible for Qatar's bid for the 2022 World Cup led a secret campaign in 2010 to damage the files of rival countries

. And the United States and Australia.

The so-called goal of the country team, according to the Sunday Times, was to spread negative publicity to give the impression that the World Cup was not supported internally in the countries of competition.

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Such a campaign, allegedly claimed by the newspaper, is supposed to violate the laws of FIFA,

Qatar won the right to host the 2022 Cup against its US competitors, d & # 39; Australia, South Korea and Japan.

FIFA regulations prohibit candidates' files from making written or oral statements, negative or otherwise. Candidate records or any member of the Union. "

Previously, the country file team was accused of corruption, but it won

Some of the alleged images of the smear campaign published by the Sunday Times:

• Paid nine thousand dollars to a prominent academic to write a negative report on the high economic cost of organizing the tournament in the US Recruit journalists, bloggers and high profile personalities in each country to stoke the aspects
• Recruit a group of American physical education teachers to ask members of Congress to reject the World Cup in the United States.What it will be used
• Organize Popular protests in Rugby football matches in Australia to oppose the country's bid to host the tournament.
• Preparing intelligence reports on the people involved
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  The documents seen by the Sunday Times, which according to the newspaper were leaked by a person working in the team responsible for organizing the 2022 World Cup, did not appear to be available during the day. full FIFA investigation. The US public relations firm Brown Lloyds James, now called BLJ Worldwide, and a former team of US intelligence agents to lead a campaign to undermine one of FIFA's key criteria, is that every single file enjoys strong support in the candidate country

  The Higher Committee for Projects and Heritage in Qatar declared that it "rejects all the

  " We have been the subject of & dquo; A thorough investigation and we cooperated with all the information about our donations, including the official investigation conducted by American lawyer Michael Garcia. "

  " We were very committed to all laws "

  FIFA said in a statement that" US attorney Michael Garcia conducted a thorough investigation and his findings are available in the report, "referring to the investigation conducted by the Federation and continued. Two years.

  BLJ Worldwide did not respond The United States said in a comment on the Sunday Times.

  In December 2010, Qatar won the World Cup. Russia won the 2018 tournament at the same time, beating three competing countries, including England.

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