The regional head of the British Center for Middle East Studies, Amjad Taha, said that Qatar paid a bribe to the Ecuador national team to win the opening match of the 2022 World Cup.
Exclusive: Qatar bribed 8 Ecuadorians $7.4 million to lose the opening match (1-0, second half goal). 5 Qatari and Ecuadorian insiders confirmed this.
We hope this is not true. We hope that the dissemination of this information will affect the result. The world must resist the corruption of FIFA,” Taha wrote on his Twitter page.
