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JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): Hundreds of millions of people around the globe will be watching fervently next week when the World Cup (soccer), the world’s most popular sporting event, kicks off in Brazil.
But a series of reports and investigations are casting a cloud over the sport and its international governing body, FIFA.
Jeff is back with that story.
JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour): One investigative series, published in The New York Times, found a match-fixing syndicate was able to manipulate several contests in the run-up to the previous World Cup in 2010. The stories included tales of apparent bribery that led to clearly suspicious calls by referees in an effort to exploit matches for betting purposes.
Separately, The Sunday Times, a British newspaper, published new documents showing corruption and payments behind Qatar’s successful bid to host the Cup in 2022.
Declan Hill is an investigative journalist who co-wrote The New York Times series. He joins us now.
So these games that were fixed in the run-up to the last World Cup, tell us briefly what happened.
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