England will withdraw from an international friendly against Thailand after the country’s highest-ranking football boss broke his promise to support their bid for the 2018 World Cup, according to a UK newspaper.
The English Football Association had agreed to play in Bangkok next June, despite the trip to Asia being seen as no benefit to Fabio Capello’s troubled squad, Telegraph Sport reported.
The controversial game was agreed to by England to try and secure the support of Worawi Makudi, president of the Football Association of Thailand and an executive committee member of Fifa. England’s confident bid ended in humiliation on Thursday in Zurich, when they were knocked out in the first round of voting with Russia eventually winning the bid.
England received just two votes from executive committee members.
The English FA intends to cancel the friendly after Mr Worawi did not back them in the ballot, the Telegraph Sport said.
But the newspaper said it had been clear for two months that Mr Worawi had no intention of supporting England.
In September, Telegraph Sport revealed Mr Worawi was part of a vote-trading alliance between Spain-Portugal and Qatar that he was unlikely to abandon.
The English FA declined to comment on the issue.
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