Now there’s a headline that you did not see coming.
Franz Beckenbauer – adviser to FIFA’s football committee and a global ambassador for German champion Bayern Munich has been banned by FIFA for not cooperating with an investigation into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.
He turned down they say “repeated requests for his assistance, including requests that he provide information during an in-person interview or in response to written questions provided in both English and German,”
‘Curiouser and curiouser!’