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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Graham Dunbar

Council of Europe questions integrity of World Cup in scathing letter to Fifa hours before final

Europe’s leading human rights organisation has questioned the integrity of the World Cup, urging FIFA to establish a more robust framework for the 2030 edition which will be played mostly in Spain and Portugal.

In a scathing open letter to FIFA published hours before the final between Spain and Argentina in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Alain Berset, the head of the 46-nation Council of Europe, warned: "The next crisis has already begun. It has two names: money and power."

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