Fifa scandal: World Cup chief asked for favours from Qatar

‘The Fifa official in charge of assessing the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids requested “personal favours” from Qatar days after embarking on an inspection of the country, documents reveal.

Correspondence seen by The Daily Telegraph shows how Harold Mayne-Nicholls wrote to a sports organisation linked to the Qatari bid seeking specialist training in the country for family members, shortly before he issued his report on the Gulf state.

Mr Mayne-Nicholls, the Chilean chairman of the inspection team which assessed each country bidding to host the tournament, emailed Andreas Bleicher, who helps run Aspire, a Qatari government-backed sports development body, asking if they could “evaluate and train” his son and nephew.’

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