At least two federation presidents had some explaining to do after Wednesday’s FIFA vote that awarded the 2026 World Cup to the United bid of Mexico, Canada and the United States over a rival proposal from Morocco.
Antonio Souare, president of the Guinean soccer association and an ambassador for the Moroccan bid, cast his vote electronically for the North American trio while Brazil’s soccer head, Antonio Carlos Nunes, went the other way, publicly backing the North American trio, then voting for the North Africans.
“I did not vote of the United bid,” Souare told a reporter.