Bidding for 2026 World Cup to be postponed: Fifa official
Decision on who hosts the finals had been due to be made in 2017
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Samara, Russia
FIFA will postpone the start of bidding for the right to host the 2026 World Cup following the launch of a corruption investigation, a senior official in soccer's governing body said on Wednesday. "Due to the situation, I think it's nonsense to start any bidding process for the time being. It will be postponed," Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke told a news conference in the southern Russian city of Samara.
The decision on who hosts the 2026 finals had been due to be made in Kuala Lumpur in 2017.
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