{"id":54695,"date":"2015-07-08T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T01:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54695"},"modified":"2015-07-08T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T01:41:16","slug":"fifa-bans-former-world-cup-evaluation-committee-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/08\/fifa-bans-former-world-cup-evaluation-committee-head\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA bans former World Cup evaluation committee head"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54697\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1105623-18599767-2560-1440.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54697\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1105623-18599767-2560-1440.jpg\" alt=\"Former Chilean FA president Mayne-Nicholls (Photo from Euro Sport\/Yahoo Sport) \" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1105623-18599767-2560-1440.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1105623-18599767-2560-1440-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Chilean FA president Mayne-Nicholls (Photo from Euro Sport\/Yahoo Sport)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ZURICH \u2013 FIFA has handed a seven-year ban to its former head of their bid evaluation committee for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups for \u201cconfidentiality\u201d breaches.<\/p>\n<p>Football\u2019s world governing body Monday banned Mayne-Nicholls, 54, \u201cfrom taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national and international level for a period of seven years,\u201d a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>No details were revealed as FIFA said the suspension came after a breach of a confidentiality rule in FIFA\u2019s code of ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Mayne-Nicholls, a former Chilean FA president, wrote the report that gave Qatar the worst ranking of the candidates for the 2022 World Cup finals which the wealthy Gulf state went on to win.<\/p>\n<p>Mayne-Nicholls confirmed he would appeal the suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH \u2013 FIFA has handed a seven-year ban to its former head of their bid evaluation committee for the 2018 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":54697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-54695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-original","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}