Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter says the decision to award the 2022 World Cup finals to Qatar was a "mistake".
FIFA initially banned Blatter from football for eight years, later reduced to six, over the payment to Platini. "It was a mistake," Blatter said in an interview with AFP's German sports subsidiary SID. Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter says the decision to award the 2022 World Cup finals to Qatar was a "mistake".