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06-13-2014, 06:35 PM
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Fifa has provisionally banned World Cup winner Franz Beckenbauer from all footballing activities for 90 days for failing to co-operate with the Qatar 2022 corruption inquiry.
Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup with West Germany as a player and as a coach, had been asked to help with a Fifa ethics investigation.
The 68-year-old was part of the Fifa executive committee which voted to give the tournament to Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022.
Beckenbauer captained West Germany to victory at the 1974 World Cup, and was coach when they next lifted the trophy 16 years later.
He then managed at Olympique Marseille and Bayern Munich, where he is now honorary president.
Fifa said Beckenbauer ignored "repeated requests" to assist with an independent investigation into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments which is being led by American lawyer Michael Garcia.
But Beckenbauer said: "I politely requested a meeting in which we could talk about the matter in German. That was apparently not desired. That aside I wouldn't be able to contribute anything to clear up the matter anyway."
World football's governing body said he was asked to supply answers to written questions provided in both English and German.
In a statement, Fifa said: "The apparent breach relates to Mr Beckenbauer's failure to co-operate with an ethics committee investigation despite repeated requests for his assistance.
"The case is now the subject of formal investigation proceedings being conducted by investigatory chamber member Vanessa Allard as chief of the investigation."
Fifa vice president Jim Boyce said: "This very much shows once again how the Fifa reform process is working. The independent ethics committee are doing a good job and should have the full support of everybody."
The Sunday Times recently published an investigation based on documents it obtained alleging that disgraced Qatari football official Mohamed Bin Hammam made payments totalling $5m to football officials in return for their support for the Qatar bid.
Garcia says he now has "almost all" of the documents that the British paper's report referred to.
Fifa has provisionally banned World Cup winner Franz Beckenbauer from all footballing activities for 90 days for failing to co-operate with the Qatar 2022 corruption inquiry.
Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup with West Germany as a player and as a coach, had been asked to help with a Fifa ethics investigation.
The 68-year-old was part of the Fifa executive committee which voted to give the tournament to Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022.
Beckenbauer captained West Germany to victory at the 1974 World Cup, and was coach when they next lifted the trophy 16 years later.
He then managed at Olympique Marseille and Bayern Munich, where he is now honorary president.
Fifa said Beckenbauer ignored "repeated requests" to assist with an independent investigation into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments which is being led by American lawyer Michael Garcia.
But Beckenbauer said: "I politely requested a meeting in which we could talk about the matter in German. That was apparently not desired. That aside I wouldn't be able to contribute anything to clear up the matter anyway."
World football's governing body said he was asked to supply answers to written questions provided in both English and German.
In a statement, Fifa said: "The apparent breach relates to Mr Beckenbauer's failure to co-operate with an ethics committee investigation despite repeated requests for his assistance.
"The case is now the subject of formal investigation proceedings being conducted by investigatory chamber member Vanessa Allard as chief of the investigation."
Fifa vice president Jim Boyce said: "This very much shows once again how the Fifa reform process is working. The independent ethics committee are doing a good job and should have the full support of everybody."
The Sunday Times recently published an investigation based on documents it obtained alleging that disgraced Qatari football official Mohamed Bin Hammam made payments totalling $5m to football officials in return for their support for the Qatar bid.
Garcia says he now has "almost all" of the documents that the British paper's report referred to.