Qatar 2022: Delivery of Michael Garcia's report pushed back to first week of September 2014

"In response to enquiries regarding the investigation into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, the investigatory chamber of the FIFA [Fédération Internationale de Football Association] ethics committee has released the following statement: “We expect to deliver our report to the adjudicatory chamber by the first week of September 2014," said FIFA on 22/07/2014.

The enquiry, led by Michael Garcia (USA), the chairman of the investigatory chamber of the ethics committee, was completed prior to FIFA's Congress, held on 11/06/2014 in Sao Paulo (BRA). There, the international federation announced that a report would be submitted to the FIFA ethics committee's adjudicatory chamber "approximately six weeks" after the end of the investigations, that is, approximately on 20/07/2014.

"The report will consider all evidence potentially related to the bidding process, including evidence collected from prior investigations," FIFA's investigatory chamber said in a statement on 02/06/2014.

Russia and Qatar were chosen to host, respectively, the 2018 and 2022 World Cups on a vote…