Garcia has had enough of FIFA

Ethics investigator resigns in wake of judge's handling of report

FIFA ethics investigator Michael Garcia resigned on Wednesday in protest over the way his report into allegations of corruption in awarding the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments to Russia and Qatar was handled by the soccer governing body's ethics judge.

Garcia, a former US prosecutor, said he had lost confidence in the independence of the ethics committee's adjudicatory chamber after judge Hans-Joachim Eckert issued a 42-page statement in November based on the report.