After Morocco questioned Gianni Infantino’s impartiality, FIFA maintained Wednesday that its president won’t meddle in the 2026 World Cup bidding contest and reminded the North African nation to abide by the rules. The prospect of Infantino privately backing the North American campaign was discussed on Tuesday by Morocco bid chairman Moulay Hafid Elalamy. Bids can be blocked from the FIFA Congress vote on June 13 if they are scored lowly by a task force , which is packed with people appointed to jobs by Infantino. “The bidding process for the 2026 FIFA World Cup is as fair, objective and transparent as it can get,” FIFA said. Canada and Mexico would stage 10 games each at the first World Cup expanded from 32 to 48 finalists.

Source: thestar March 28, 2018 16:07 UTC