NEW YORK: Former US prosecutor Michael Garcia resigned Wednesday as FIFA's chief corruption investigator in protest at the football governing body's handling of his report into the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

Garcia attacked the "lack of leadership" by FIFA over the inquiry into the 2010 votes that awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar.

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