June 11 – “Today, I am certain that the information I received from a European source [football official] was a fabrication,” says Michel Zen-Ruffinen in an exclusive interview with INSIDEWorldFootball.com, referring to the rumours of vote collusion in the race for the 2018 and 2020 World Cup hosting rights
The former General Secretary of FIFA is critical of English journalists who misled him. “They portrayed themselves as marketing consultants who worked for a non-European Bid [fair to assume it was not an Asian bid – iwf] and offered me a consulting agreement that I signed after reviewing the credentials they showed me. It was a proper set-up and of course I never got paid for the work I did,” he said.
“The alleged Spain/Portugal and Russia/Qatar collusion, which was published in the Sunday Times was a fabrication, of that I am certain today.”
The European member of a bid team who offered him the information on vote collusion did so with the purpose of him sharing it with ‘marketing consultants’ (who were journalists) had fabricated that story, IWF was made to understand. That European now works for a major media empire.
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