Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, insisted Friday that an investigative report into the bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups should remain private, despite growing pressure for its release from inside and outside soccer’s world governing body.

The independent investigator who wrote the report, Michael J. Garcia, on Wednesday called for its “appropriate publication,” and several members of FIFA’s executive committee, including the U.S. Soccer president, Sunil Gulati, publicly expressed support this week for releasing Garcia’s findings in the interests of transparency.

Gulati said Wednesday that he and other committee members would press Blatter and their colleagues to permit the report’s release during two days of meetings in Zurich. But in a clear rebuke to those who challenged his authority, Blatter said Friday that no one had raised the issue with the executive committee.

“There was not any request from any of these members to publish this report,” Blatter said.

Gulati, reached by phone, declined to comment on Blatter’s statement.