Friday 5 June 2015

Zico: England could still win 2022 World Cup rights

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FIFA presidential candidate Zico has revealed that England are still in the running to win the rights to host the 2022 World Cup.
Following the resignation of Sepp Blatter on Tuesday, a host of names have been linked with the presidency for world football’s governing body.
Brazilian legend Zico is one of those and he suggests that if Qatar were to be stripped of the hosting rights in the wake of bribery and corruption allegations, England are ready to step up.
"With respect to Qatar as a country that wants to grow, you can't have a World Cup in a country that doesn't have football," said Zico.
"I worked there [Qatar] when I was Iraq's head coach. They don't have 1,000 people at their stadiums. There are matches where not even the players' families go."
He added: "If the irregularities are proven that there was buying of votes for this nomination, I think that, no matter who did it, we should stop and start over again, make a different kind of election.
"We have time. We have here different countries, England is one of them with infrastructure to hold a World Cup. This happened already - 1986, if I remember correctly."

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