There will be no compensation. I mean they have seven years to reorganize soccer around the world for this World Cup.

Jerome Valcke

Categorized in : Sports

I am signing contracts every day, everything has the signature of the general secretary, but it's not because I am signing everything that I am responsible for the way people are acting around the world.

The Dutch FA have not been in touch with FIFA, or our referees department. I have no idea why not, but we have not seen it.

There will be no compensation. I mean they have seven years to reorganise football around the world for this World Cup, it's not perfect, we know that -- but why are we talking about compensation? It's happening once, we're not destroying football.

We are talking about a reduction of the competition in terms of the number of competition days. We are talking about 28 days and not anymore 32 days, it is a very special World Cup to organise because we would describe Qatar 2022 as a compact World Cup.