ZURICH: The appeal lodged by Michael Garcia, chairman of FIFA’s investigatory chamber, against the statement of independent ethics committee chairman Hans-Joachim Eckert is not admissible, world football’s ruling body said on Tuesday. The statement about the report on the inquiry into the bidding process for the 2018 and ’22 World Cups does not constitute a decision and is therefore neither legally binding nor appealable, FIFA said. World football’s governing body announcedlast month there were no grounds to reopen the bidding process which led to Russia being given the ’18 finals and Qatar the ’22 tournament.