Fifa’s well-remunerated secretary general Jérôme Valcke, very much at home in the expensive lobby of a five-star hotel in Buenos Aires during a key date in the IOC calendar, laid out in simple terms for a small gaggle of hacks just how things were going to be.
Above the babble of disingenuous, faux polite chatter that floats between the captains of sporting blazerdom on these occasions, he explained the Qatar World Cup would inevitably be moved to winter, most likely late November.
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