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 Zwanziger, the former boss of Germany's football association (DFB),
said that could happen, however, only if a report into how the World
Cup was awarded offers details of specific wrongdoing.
"The best solution would be not to play in Qatar and to rectify this
wrong awarding," he told Bayern 2 radio station.
"But that can only happen if the report provides sufficient clues
that the awarding broke FIFA ethics rules," he sad.
FIFA has been plagued by a wave of scandals and controversy, ranging
from allegations of corruption in the 2018/2022 World Cup bidding
processes to a row over $25,000 watches given as gifts to executive
committee members at the World Cup in Brazil.
Former U.S. attorney Michael Garcia who investigated the claims and
drafted a report, resigned in December, saying he felt he was no
longer making progress and that soccer's governing body "lacked
leadership."
His report has not been made public while a redacted version will be
published at an undisclosed date.
Garcia resigned after a disagreement with Hans-Joachim Eckert, head
of the ethics committee's judgment chamber, over the handling of his
report.
"Qatar was not suitable to host such a World Cup for a number of
reasons," Zwanziger, who steps down from FIFA in May, said, citing
among other the scorching desert temperatures.
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FIFA is expected to move the tournament to winter.
The energy-rich Gulf state has also been criticized over migrants'
working conditions and protection of their human rights as they
build the multi-million dollar football stadiums.
"One has to tell candidates (for World Cups) that sports, football,
the clubs and FIFA, they all represent values that we expect to be
observed," said Zwanziger.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; editing by Amlan Chakraborty)
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