article_snippet.sent: Qatar won the final round of voting 14-8 against the USA in the executive committee ballot.
article_snippet.sent: Sponsorship of Barcelona by Qatar Airways was one deal brokered via Spain’s voting pact with Qatar, which later became an open secret, even acknowledged by FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
article_snippet.sent: Unconfirmed sums were paid by a Qatar firm to sponsor the November 2010 Argentina-Brazil friendly in Doha .
article_snippet.sent: Argentina-Brazil friendlies including against Argentina in Qatar in 2010 by Qatari interests.
article_snippet.sent: Other voters for Qatar included Chung Mong-joon of South Korea, whom Bin Hammam later helped secure honorary FIFA vice-presidency, and Junji Ogura of Japan, seen as squeaky clean, who voted for Qatar after Japan dropped out.
article_snippet.sent: Bin Hammam voted for Qatar and the 14th vote is understood to have come from either Senes Erzik of Turkey, whose PM is a close friend of the Qatar royals, or Hany Abo Rida of Egypt, paid to join Bin Hammam on campaigning trips.