The final of a controversial World Cup takes place on Sunday. Alain Berset said: ‘The celebration will end tonight. The questions will not.’
“Fifa has been accused of providing an ‘open door to fraud’ and allowing political influence to cast doubt on the integrity of the World Cup in a stinging rebuke by the Council of Europe’s secretary general. In an open letter published to coincide with Sunday’s final, Alain Berset also called for a new integrity framework to be built before the 2030 tournament, which is mainly being staged in Europe, and warned that Fifa was embroiled in a crisis involving money and power. Berset referenced the scandal surrounding Fifa’s decision to shelve the suspension of the USA striker Folarin Balogun and made apparent allusions to comments made by the Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla about Kylian Mbappé and by the former Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy about the France team. …”
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