He also played all five games in France's run to the 2014 FIFA World Cup? quarter-finals. In mid-June, the FIFA Secretary General asked the independent Chairs of the FIFA Ethics Committee's Investigatory Chamber and the FIFA Audit and Compliance Committee--Michael J.
Garcia and Domenico Scala, respectively--whether FIFA could distribute two Hublot watches commemorating the 2014 FIFA World Cup to members of the FIFA Executive Committee as a "gift. " The request stated that Hublot provided the watches to FIFA pursuant to a value-in-kind provision of a commercial agreement.
The watches--56 in total--were proposed to be given during the Executive Committee's September 2014 meetings in Zurich. The day after receiving this inquiry, Messrs. Garcia and Scala responded in a joint letter that the proposed gift would likely violate both the FIFA Code of Ethics ("FCE") and recently established compensation policies.
