Court hears how senior Fifa exec took bribes to back Qatar’s World Cup bid

Julio Grondona, formerly a long-serving senior Fifa executive and president of the Argentinian Football Association (AFA), took at least $1m (€863,000) in bribes to vote for Qatar as host of the 2022 World Cup, according to Alejandro Burzaco, former chief executive of Argentinian media group and sports-rights agency Torneos.

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