Franz Beckenbauer said Tuesday he has less confidence in FIFA after it released the results of votes for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts.
Beckenbauer, one of the 22 executive committee members who voted, said the losing candidates, "especially England and Australia," were left be "embarrassed" when FIFA revealed how many votes they got.
England got only two of 22 votes for the 2018 World Cup that went to Russia, and Australia picked up only one in the ballot for 2022, which was won by Qatar.
Beckenbauer, who is retiring from the executive committee in March, said his "confidence in FIFA has been diminished."
"I'm disappointed how FIFA handled things after the voting," Beckenbauer told Bild newspaper. "We, the executive members, were told that neither we nor the public would learn the exact number of votes. We were only told after each round of voting which country was out.
"And then I hear a couple of hours later on the radio who got how many votes."
Russia also beat joint bids from Spain-Portugal and Netherlands-Belgium, while South Korea, Japan and the United States missed out in the 2022 vote.
