The judge who will rule on the investigation into World Cup bidding said yesterday the full report will not be published, despite numerous figures in football calling for it to be made public.

Head of the Fifa ethics committee adjudicatory chamber Hans-Joachim Eckert said only selected parts of the report would be published to protect people’s “personal rights.”

The report’s author, US attorney Michael Garcia, on Monday said it should be published because Fifa needed to embrace transparency.

Several Fifa members, including Uefa president Michel Platini, have also called for publication.

But Eckert said that would not be possible.

He said: “We have to respect the personal rights of the people mentioned in the report, which in the case of full publication of the report would in all likelihood not be possible.” 

Eckert did say that he will release a statement in mid-November which “will contain an overview of the investigation report, a summary of the main findings, conclusions and recommendations of the report, as well as a brief evaluation of the same.”