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Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter admits it was a ‘mistake’ to award Qatar the 2022 World Cup.
The 86-year-old was the head of football’s world governing body when Qatar controversially won the vote in 2010.
But Blatter, who was forced to resign in 2015 after the FBI opened investigations into alleged corruption at FIFA, now concedes that Qatar is ‘too small’ to host the tournament and feels the Unites States should have won the vote for 2022.
‘The choice of Qatar was a mistake,’ Blatter told Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger.