UEFA 'may leave FIFA'
The president of the German Football League has warned that Uefa's 54 member nations could take the ultimate step of quitting Fifa if Michael Garcia's report into World Cup bidding is not published in full.
“The result was a breakdown in communication, and it has shaken the foundations of Fifa in a way I've never experienced before,” said Rauball.
“As a solution, two things must happen. Not only must the decision of the ethics committee be published, but Mr Garcia's bill of indictment too, so it becomes clear what the charges were and how they were judged,” he told the German website kicker.de.
“Additionally, the areas that were not evaluated [in the report] and whether that was justified [should be published]. It must be made public. That is the only way Fifa can deal with the complete loss of credibility. If this doesn't happen and the crisis is not resolved in a credible manner, you have to entertain the question of whether you are still in good hands with Fifa,” Rauball added.
“One option that would have to bear serious consideration is certainly that Uefa leaves Fifa.”
Rauball's intervention comes against the backdrop of Uefa's calls for the Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, to stand down, as he promised to do at the end of his current four-year term. Before the Brazil World Cup, a series of speakers at Uefa's congress stood up to call for Blatter to make his current term his last, while the FA chairman, Greg Dyke, denounced Blatter for claiming corruption allegations in the media were motivated by racism.
“The only people that come out well in that summary report by Eckert is Fifa. [It says] they got their decisions right in respect to Qatar and Russia, and there's even a sentence and a reference in there that Sepp Blatter ran a wonderful process,” Bonita Mersiades, one of two whistleblowers, said.
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