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The judge and prosecutor behind FIFA's World Cup bid corruption investigation will meet on Thursday in an effort to repair their relations and restore the reputation of a case seemingly in disarray.

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The judge and prosecutor behind FIFA's World Cup bid corruption investigation are set to meet in an effort to repair their relations and restore the reputation of a case seemingly in disarray.

The whereabouts of the meeting between FIFA ethics judge Joachim Eckert and prosecutor Michael Garcia is a secret - as is, against the American lawyer's wishes, his investigation findings.

Eckert sought face-to-face talks after Garcia appealed to FIFA against the German judge's decision to close the probe of the 2018 and 2022 bidding contests won by Russia and Qatar.

Garcia claimed there were "numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations" of his work in Eckert's 42-page summary judgment.

FIFA complicated matters by sending Garcia's report to Switzerland's attorney general in a criminal complaint against unnamed individuals implicated in the case.