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FIFA releases full Garcia Report into corruption in 2018, '22 World Cup bids

FIFA has released the full content of the "Garcia report" that examined alleged corruption in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests, one day after it was leaked to German newspaper Bild.

Garcia's report was once expected to be explosive and became a holy grail for FIFA critics who thought the votes that gave the World Cups to Russia and Qatar could be re-run, but Bild journalist Peter Rossberg, who obtained the leaked copy, said the "report does not provide proof that the World Cup was bought in 2018 or 2022."

FIFA critics believed bid leaders in Russia and Qatar must have engaged in wrongdoing to earn the votes of a FIFA executive committee lineup in 2010 that has since been widely discredited.