World Cup 2018, 2022 host vote on December 2 - Blatter
The hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups will be elected as planned on December 2, the president of the ruling football body FIFA, Joseph Blatter, said on Friday.
Blatter told a news conference that the FIFA executive committee saw no reason at meetings Thursday and Friday to change the date in connection with corruption allegations the federation is currently probing.
"There was never a question of changing the procedure. On December 2 here in Zurich the executive committee will decide in a secret ballot who will be hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups," Blatter said, according to foreign media.
FIFA last week provisionally suspended two members of the executive committee - Amos Adamu of Nigeria and Reynald Temarii of Tahiti - over allegations they offered to sell their votes to undercover newspaper reporters from the Sunday Times. Blatter said that the ethics committee will decide on their fate November 15-17.