FIFA lost 6 watches worth $12,000

Six expensive watches set to be displayed at the Player of the Year awards ceremony have gone missing for unknown reasons.

These are 6 products sponsored by Hublot for FIFA to use and then give to the individuals who receive the award. However, these watches, worth a total of about 12,150 USD, later disappeared without FIFA being able to find the reason.

Ronaldo was one of those who received a watch. Photo: AP.

"We are looking into what happened to the watches. They are missing somewhere," a FIFA spokesman said.

The FIFA Best Player awards ceremony was held in a conference hall located between FIFA headquarters and the Zurich TV headquarters, which is where the six watches went missing.

Hublot representatives then found six other watches for FIFA to use. The world soccer governing body was embroiled in a watch scandal in 2014, when members of the FIFA council had to return Parmigiani watches worth a total of $19,450 that had been given to them by the Brazilian Football Confederation.

One of the recipients was FA chairman Greg Dyke, who was prevented from donating the watch to charity and was reprimanded by FIFA for not returning it immediately. Having already been in trouble, FIFA’s continued sponsorship by a watch company has made them the butt of jokes.

Claudio Ranieri, who won the Coach of the Year award, was supposed to receive a watch. But the Leicester City tactician was denied one because he is an ambassador for Hublot's rival Tag Heuer.

According to VNE