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As the ramifications of the biggest crisis in the history of FIFA keep piling up, it seems a World Cup on American soil is a not so improbable of a possibility.
England Football Association chairman Greg Dyke, speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, commented on the events of the past week and a half, and eventually the subject of the Russia and Qatar World Cups was brought up.
"The Swiss authorities are now looking at the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups,” said Duke, who wen on to plant seeds of possibility surrounding Qatar losing the 2022 World Cup.
"If you've read all the journalism around it, you'd certainly have doubts about the Qatar World Cup…If that is shown to be true and they can demonstrate that there was corruption then of course it should be rebid."
After the resignation of Sepp Blatter, nothing seems impossible in the world of FIFA, least of all where a World Cup highly suspected of corruption and human rights violations is concerned.
If Qatar does lose the right to host the World Cup, Dyke went on to say that the United States would be a favorite to take up the event.
"I think it would be pretty certain it wouldn't come to Europe -- you wouldn't have two successive World Cups in Europe. So I would say it would be most likely to go to America, who were the runners up."
These events are all still a couple of steps away from happening, steps which are likely no small accomplishments in and of themselves, but with the dominoes that have already fallen in the past week, it is impossible to tell what the future holds for FIFA and the 2022 World Cup.
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