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FIFA medical chief: No corruption in Qatar World Cup vote

FIFA Executive Committee member Michel D'Hooghe has denied claims that there was corruption relating to Qatar's successful World Cup bid.

The Arabic nation won the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup in December 2010, when football's world governing body also awarded the 2018 tournament to Russia.

There is ongoing speculation that financial exploitation attributed to Qatar winning their bid with plenty of calls for a re-vote but D'Hooghe, also FIFA's medical chief, says nothing of the sort will occur.

"There will be absolutely no re-vote. Some in the English press want that. But it's not the English press that decide," the Belgian said.

"Absolutely not. I had no feeling anything was going on then and I still have no feeling that there was corruption during this vote.

"But, for the British press, whatever we do is never enough. And the feeling in FIFA is that all this British criticism is partly sour grapes.

"In football you win and you lose. If England feel they have not had a World Cup since 1966, then Belgium has never had the World Cup. England must not complain. They just had the Olympics and organised (in 2012) it fantastically."

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