Asian Football Federation (AFC) president Mohamed Bin Hammam on Saturday strongly denied reports that he had agreed to back the Spain-Portugal bid to host the 2018 World Cup.
The head of the Qatari football federation had been quoted in Spanish daily Marca as saying that he would vote for the Iberian bid to host the tournament when FIFA s executive committee convenes in Zurich on December 2.
However, he told AFP by telephone on Saturday that no interview with the paper had ever taken place.
I never spoke to any newspaper or media about the bidding for the 2018 World Cup, he said. What was published is totally false.
In a report on Friday, Marca quoted Bin Hammam as saying that Asia supports the Iberian bid but denying there was a pact between the two b…