By AFPMore by this AuthorLAUSANNESepp Blatter has been summoned to explain how Germany was awarded the 2006 World Cup as prosecutors in Switzerland investigate suspected corruption in the bidding process, the disgraced former Fifa supremo told AFP on Thursday. Swiss authorities are targeting Franz Beckenbauer, former captain and coach of the German World Cup winning sides, who was president of the German 2006 bid, with a suspect 6.7 million euros ($7.5M) payment at the heart of the investigation. "Via my lawyer I got a call up on February 8 to a meeting with the Berne public prosecutor as a person of interest in the attributing of the 2006 World Cup to Germany," Blatter told AFP. The fund reportedly held 10 million Swiss francs, or 6.7 million euros according to the exchange rate at the time. Beckenbauer, now 72, captained Germany to the 1974 World Cup and coached the side that won the trophy in Italy in 1990.

Source: Daily Nation February 14, 2019 14:15 UTC