Berlin: A member of FIFA's executive committee says awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was a "blatant mistake" and that even moving it to avoid searing summer temperatures wouldn't be ideal.
Former German soccer federation president Theo Zwanziger told SportBild that a suggestion by FIFA president Sepp Blatter to play the tournament in winter would seriously affect the European leagues and threaten the "unity of German football".
Blatter plans to ask the committee to consider the switch - going back on his previous position of insisting on a summer tournament in a country where the temperature regularly exceeds 100 degrees.
Zwanziger said Blatter's U-turn showed that most of the executive committee had voted "against a fair awarding procedure" in giving the World Cup to Qatar.
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