Prince William and the Queen named in corruption scandal
Prince William and former British Prime Minister David Cameron have been embroiled in a football corruption scandal.
The former Prime Minister and Prince William were in attendance of a meeting during which a vote-swapping deal between England and South Korea was discussed, according to an official report released on Tuesday night.
FIFA released the full report produced by their chief ethics investigator Michael Garcia in 2014 after German newspaper Bild obtained a copy and started publishing parts of the report.
The report disclosed the full extent of England’s fail bid to stage the 2018 World Cup, with England's football bosses going to great lengths to court FIFA executives, many of them now discredited.
The Queen is also mentioned in the report after it emerged that officials discussed the possibility of arranging a meeting with the Queen for a FIFA representative whose vote could have helped England. One South American official asked for an honorary knighthood.
The documents reveals Mr Cameron met FIFA vice president Mong-Joon Chung of South Korea in Prince William's suite at the Baur au lac Hotel in Zurich on the eve of the vote in December 2010. Mr Cameron reportedly asked the South Korean delegation to back England's bid. He was told that England would have to agree to support South Korea's bid to host the 2022 tournament. The report states cote-swapping deals are a “violation of the anti-collusions rules”.
The report shows the full extent of English officials attempts to court FIFA vice-president and president of North, Central American and Caribbean football confederation Jack Warner.
"England 2018's response shows an unfortunate willingness, time and again, to meet that expectation [of Mr Warner]," concludes the report.
England’s bid was knocked out in the first round after receiving only two votes.