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As we are no longer employed in FIFA in a professional capacity, we were under no obligation to cooperate with Mr Garcia's inquiry, but did so through a sense of natural justice and a desire to bring closure to a long running chapter in our lives, the statement read. Stuart Franklin - FIFA Our cooperation was facilitated by Mr Garcia's repeated promises - made privately to us and also in public - to ensure the confidentiality of his witnesses. He said the report would not be published; that only four people would see it; and that the identities of the people he spoke with - other than current serving FIFA officials or employees - would remain confidential. This was a crucial element behind our decision to cooperate, as we are private citizens and no longer protected by the legal and PR functions of wealthy FIFA federations. US lawyer was claimed by FIFA to have found no reason to strip the two winning bids of the right to host the tournaments.But in a remarkable twist Garcia repudiated the claims made on his behalf late last week and intends to appeal the decision.Al-Majid and Mersiades acknowledge Garcia's change of action and announced their own intention to investigate what they see as a breach of Article 16.1.They added: The summary by Judge Eckert clearly breached all such assurances of confidentiality. Although not named in the report, we were clearly identifiable and within hours of its publication had been widely unmasked as the ‘whistleblowers' in German, British and Australian media. Getty To compound this situation Judge Eckert used his summary report to question our credibility. This is particularly puzzling as the summary simultaneously uses the same information we provided to form significant parts of his inquiry in respect of the Australian and Qatar FIFA World Cup bids. We note that within hours of the summary report's publication Mr Garcia denounced it, alleging ‘numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations fifa 15 coins of the facts and conclusions' that are detailed in the full report. We note also that Mr Garcia is taking his case of misrepresentation to the FIFA appeals committee. In addition to his own appeal process, we have requested Mr Garcia to investigate a breach of Article 16.1 by FIFA and Judge Eckert.Gervinho is the gift that keeps on giving. His hair alone is enough to bring a smile to the face of any sane human being.His performances at FIFA would also regularly raise a smile. He always put in the effort, but there was so little end product, it almost made you chuckle (unless you support FIFA, of course).Ironically enough, Gervinho has been reinvented since he left London and moved to Roma. Speak to fans in Italy and they will tell you tales of a skillfull attacker who gets his share of FIFA goals.Thankfully, Gervinho did something in the Sierra Leone v Ivory Coast FIFA game yesterday that reminded the world of his true value as a entertainer: Wonderful stuff.