FIFA President Blatter stated: “I am very disappointed about the conduct of a member of the FIFA Executive Committee. In such a situation, FIFA acts immediately and firmly, also in line with the decisions taken at the Congress in Munich on 7 and 8 June.”

FIFA was informed and subsequently presented with evidence on Saturday in Berlin by a reporter of the British Mail on Sunday newspaper about the above mentioned fact.

Ismail Bhamjee admitted to the above and signed the following declaration:  “I, Ismail Bhamjee, Member of the FIFA Executive Committee, hereby confirm the fact that I have sold on 12 CAT 1 tickets of the 2006 FIFA World Cup match England – Trinidad & Tobago (played on 15 June in Nuremberg) for EUR 300 each, i.e. EUR 200 above face value (EUR 100) for each ticket.

"I deeply regret this incorrect act and apologize to FIFA for violating the relevant Terms & Conditions governing the sale of tickets for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.”


Bhamjee, 62, the president of the Botswana Football Association who has been a member of the executive committee for eight years, was told to resign from all FIFA World Cup duties.
He was due to leave the executive committee next January after failing to be re-elected at the congress of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Cairo in January.
Although he is not a member of the World Cup organizing committee, he would have other FIFA-related duties in Germany.

Executive committee members are paid 500 US dollars a day expenses while on official FIFA duty. In addition they are paid 100,000 US dollars a year while members of the board. FIFA/Tiscali news