Blatter to set up anti-corruption committee

Blatter also criticised penalty shootouts, suggesting that, in a team sport, it was wrong to use a system which turned one player into a scapegoat.

Last year two of FIFA's 24-man executive committee, Reynald Temarii and Amos Adamu, were suspended after allegations they had offered to sell their votes in the contest to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to undercover reporters from Britain's Sunday Times.

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