Football World Cup: Qatar wanted to change twenties with millions

The loud and vehement criticism of the former DFB President Theo Zwanziger has apparently attempted to prevent the controversial World Cup hosts Qatar with dramatic resources.

As among other things, the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" reported, the Emirate in 2012 for ten million dollars is intended to commission the company of a former CIA agent to dissuade the twenties of his publicly expressed attitude to Qatar.

"This process has follow. There are other questions that places," said the 76-year-old on Monday the "Sid". Therefore, on Thursday he wants to express in detail on a press conference in Koblenz in detail to the occurrences. The World Cup in Qatar rises from 21 November to 18 December.

Qatar the "cancer ulcer of world football"

Twenties was the sole president of the German Football Federation (DFB) from 2006 to 2012, from 2011 to 2015, he was also a member of the Executive of the World Association FIFA and had not held behind the mountain in 2010 with his criticism of Qatar since the World Cup Association. In 2016, the district court of Düsseldorf decided that twenties was the desert emirate as previously made in an interview as "cancer ulcer of world soccer". The Katarische Football Association had subled against it.

As the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" reported after inspection of documents from different sources, twenties should be influenced by his footballing and personal environment and thus turned over. For this purpose, Qatar has commissioned the company "Global Risk Advisors" (GRA) for the project "Riverbed", since twenties had been identified as "threat to Katar's World Cup ambitions".

In the summer of 2014, the operation, which was originally even 26 million dollars, have ended according to the documents.