FIFA Officials Arrested

swapacrate

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Are you suggesting WR doesn't fund the smaller nations? I Think you're just saying something vaguely populist.
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To be fair its not about the funding for me. Which Im sure could be better.
 
Its how the Northern nations manipulate the residency rules, to suit them and not the pacific nations. Plus, its how the top countries have 2 votes, and countries like the Pacific Nations get no say.
 
Its about getting the balance right.

Tim

Nate Silver and Daniel Drezner have both written about creating an alternative to FIFA. 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-break-fifa/'>http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-break-fifa/</a> 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/01/what-international-relations-theory-can-tell-us-about-breaking-fifa/'>http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/01/what-international-relations-theory-can-tell-us-about-breaking-fifa/</a>

red terror

The Saffer press has been closely monitoring revelations from their own hosting bid... 
 
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<div>How South Africa rigged the 2010 World Cup bid </div>
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<div>US Indictment tells a tale of diverted FIFA funds, banks in the Cayman Islands and briefcases stacked with dollar bills</div>
 
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<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.rdm.co.za/sport/2015/05/28/how-south-africa-rigged-the-2010-world-cup-bid'>http://www.rdm.co.za/sport/2015/05/28/how-south-africa-rigged-the-2010-world-cup-bid</a>

El Toro supremo

If you are trying to find a hero in this entire FIFA saga.....here is one for you.
Why can't there be more people like this?
 
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/03/how-a-curmudgeonly-old-reporter-exposed-the-fifa-scandal-that-toppled-sepp-blatter/'>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/03/how-a-curmudgeonly-old-reporter-exposed-the-fifa-scandal-that-toppled-sepp-blatter/</a>
 
The key is not to suck up to people in power...
I absolutely love the way he puts the bait out there.........hats off dude!

NTA

From that article:
 
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">I get the mike and I said, â€˜Herr Blatter, have you ever taken a bribe?'â€</blockquote>

NTA

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">After years of being barred from FIFA news conferences, Jennings said heâ€™s looking forward to seeing the indicted executives in a U.S. court.
â€œI just hope I can afford the airfare to New York and that someone will let me sleep on their couch,â€ he said, â€œso that I can be there in the [courthouse] press box to say, â€˜Hi guys! Itâ€™s been a long run, hasnâ€™t it?â€™â€</blockquote>
BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! How good is this old bloke?
 
Fucks given: negative four thousand.

red terror

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Fifa in crisis: 'Morocco won 2010 World Cup vote - not South Africa' 
 
Claims emerge Fifa and Sepp Blatter allegedly handed tapes of one official, Ismail Bhamjee, revealing Morocco had won World Cup five years ago
 
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<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/fifa/11657442/Fifa-in-crisis-Morocco-won-2010-World-Cup-vote-not-South-Africa.html'>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/fifa/11657442/Fifa-in-crisis-Morocco-won-2010-World-Cup-vote-not-South-Africa.html</a>

NTA

Talk now that the Qatari 2022 decision will be rescinded.

NTA

And perhaps Russia 2018 as well... though whether FIFA has the balls to tell Putin to shove it is anyone's guess.
 
I love all the righteous talk coming out about "corruption" from our media here. As El Toro pointed out above, we just dress it up differently, but its the same shit.

canefan

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Talk now that the Qatari 2022 decision will be rescinded.
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I watched an ESPN doco on Sepp Blatter and FIFA on the weekend. They interviewed an ex-media officer for the Qatari bid who blew the whistle after witnessing bribes to African football officials by her bosses. Interesting point she made was, don't blame the Qataris for what they did, they were simply playing by the rules that FIFA work by. The fact is, if you don't grease the palms of the executive members that vote for the WC locations, you won't win. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around

nostrildamus

In terms of corruption it really appears to be a "world" game. How an organisation could make a country like Brazil protest against football (or at least against FIFA) is reaching an epic level of incompetence.
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/12/anti-world-cup-protests-brazilian-cities-sao-paulo-rio-de-janeiro'>http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/12/anti-world-cup-protests-brazilian-cities-sao-paulo-rio-de-janeiro</a>

dogmeat

The FIFA Communications Director has been sacked for telling the following joke on a live interview on Swiss TV
 
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"The Fifa president, secretary general and communications director are all travelling in a car. Who's driving? The police."
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da_grubster

The longer this goes on with Teflon blatter at the helm, I am sure that he must be an fbi informant like blazer.

red terror

Oh my lord.
 
 
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"> <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://screamer.deadspin.com/report-fifa-president-sepp-blatter-may-not-resign-1711246742'>Report: FIFA President Sepp Blatter May Not Resign</a>
 
Sepp Blatter is reconsidering his decision to resign as FIFA president, according to a report from the Swiss newspaper <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.schweizamsonntag.ch/ressort/nachrichten/sepp_blatter_soll_praesident_der_fifa_bleiben/'>Schweiz am Sonntag</a>.
 
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sparky

Coca-cola and McDonald's two of soccer's major sponsors have just issued statements that Sepp Blatter should resign immediately.

NTA

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Coca-cola and McDonald's two of soccer's major sponsors have just issued statements that Sepp Blatter should resign immediately.
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"We have a problem on a moral level being associated with Blatter. We have high standards of diabetes, heart disease, and obesity to maintain..."

Tim

<a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/08/sepp-blatter-suspended-fifa">Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini and JÃ©rÃ´me Valcke suspended for 90 days</a>

Tim

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">[b][url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/documents-indicate-slush-fund-used-in-german-world-cup-bid-a-1058212.html]World Cup Scandal: Germany Appears to Have Bought Right to Host 2006 Tournament[/url][/b] 
In what could turn out to be the greatest crisis in German football since the Bundesliga bribery scandal of the 1970s, SPIEGEL has learned that the decision to award the 2006 World Cup to Germany was likely bought in the form of bribes. The German bidding committee set up a slush fund that was filled secretly by then-Adidas CEO Robert Louis-Dreyfus to the tune of 10.3 million Swiss francs, which at the time was worth 13 million deutsche marks. 
It appears that both Franz Beckenbauer, the German football hero who headed the bidding committee, and Wolfgang Niersbach, the current head of the German Football Federation (DFB), and other high-ranking football officials were aware of the fund by 2005 at the latest. 
Acting in a private capacity, Louis-Dreyfus -- who was, at the time, chairman of Adidas, the sporting apparel and supplies company that equips the German national team -- lent the money to the German bidding committee prior to the decision to award the World Cup to Germany on July 6, 2000. The loan never appeared in the bidding committee's budget or later, once the tournament had been awarded to Germany, in that of the Organizing Committee (OK). 
A year and a half prior to the World Cup, Louis-Dreyfus called in the loan, which by then had a value of â‚¬6.7 million. Officials at OK, of which Beckenbauer had become president and Niersbach vice president, began looking for a way in 2005 to pay back the illicit funds in an inconspicuous manner. 
Internal documents show that a cover was created with the help of global football organizing body FIFA to facilitate the payment. Using the cover, the Germans made a â‚¬6.7 million contribution for a gala FIFA Opening Ceremony that had been planned at Berlin's Olympic Stadium but was later cancelled. The money had been paid into a FIFA bank account in Geneva. From there, FIFA allegedly promptly transferred the money to a Zurich account belonging to Louis-Dreyfus. 
It appears that the loan was used to secure the four votes belonging to Asian representatives on the 24-person FIFA Executive Committee. The four Asians joined European representatives on the executive committee in casting their ballots for the tournament to be awarded to Germany in the July 2000 vote. After Charles Dempsey of New Zeeland unexpectedly abstained from casting his vote, Germany prevailed and landed the right to host the World Cup in a 12:11 vote. 
Beckenbauer and Niersbach did not provide a response when contacted by SPIEGEL. On Thursday, DFB said that, "for reasons of timing," it could not provide a statement within 24 hours. But then, on Friday morning, it sent a press release in which officials admitted that the World Cup 2006 Organizing Committee made a payment in April 2005 of around â‚¬6.7 million to FIFA. DFB officials stated it is possible that the payment was not used for the stated purpose (the FIFA cultural program). But officials claim the payment had no connection to the awarding of the World Cup. 
Of the three Asian representatives who voted for Germany in the Executive Committee in 2000 who are still living, two did not answer requests for comment from SPIEGEL. A third, Chung Song Joon of South Korea, said only that the questions were unworthy of a response. Former Adidas head Louis-Dreyfus passed away in 2009. </blockquote>

nostrildamus

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"We have a problem on a moral level being associated with Blatter. We have high standards of diabetes, heart disease, and obesity to maintain..."
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Plus their historic importance as cocaine distributors.<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.livescience.com/41975-does-coca-cola-contain-cocaine.html'>http://www.livescience.com/41975-does-coca-cola-contain-cocaine.html</a>

Tim

Sounds like Panorama will be interesting this week ...


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<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/12036464/Blatter-knew-of-Fifa-bribes-in-the-Nineties.html'>Blatter 'knew of Fifa bribes in the Nineties'</a> 
Claim by BBC's Panorama programme 
By Ben Rumsby 
12:50AM GMT 07 Dec 2015 
'Fifa, Sepp Blatter and Me' will cite a letter said to have been written by Blatterâ€™s predecessor as president of footballâ€™s world governing body, Joao Havelange, in which the Swiss is accused of having â€œfull knowledgeâ€ of bungs paid over the award of lucrative television and marketing rights during the 1990s. 
Blatter has always denied being aware of kickbacks taken by Havelange and others but was branded â€œclumsyâ€ in April 2013 by Fifaâ€™s ethics committee over his failure to identify a bribe intended for the Brazilian. 
The committee also questioned whether Blatter â€“ who is already facing criminal proceedings in Switzerland and a life ban from football over a separate scandal â€“ knew Fifa executives had been in receipt of such payments before and after he took office. 
A letter said by Panorama to have be written by Havelange â€“ and to have been obtained by the FBI â€“ reads: â€œI emphasise that Mr Joseph Blatter had full knowledge of all the activities described and was always apprised of them.â€ 
The new claims about Blatter follow the latest arrest and indictment of senior football officials on Thursday as part of a wide-ranging FBI-led criminal inquiry into Fifa corruption. 
The investigation was closing on the very centre of power at the governing body after two high-ranking officials were named as â€œco-conspiratorsâ€ in a $10million (Â£6.6m) bribe allegedly paid to bring the 2010 World Cup to South Africa. 
Both were referenced in the original indictment released by the United States Department of Justice after Mayâ€™s FBI-orchestrated swoop that sent Fifa into meltdown, but the amended charge sheet updated their status to that of â€œCo-Conspirator Â£14â€ and â€œCo-Conspirator Â£17â€. 
A source close to Sepp Blatter said the suspended Fifa president was definitely not Co-Conspirator Â£17 but would only say he did not think the 79-year-old was Co-Conspirator Â£14. 
Neither Jerome Valcke, the banned Fifa secretary general, not his lawyer responded to questions as to whether he was Co-Conspirator Â£17. 
Both Blatter and Valcke have denied any wrongdoing. The Panorama programme will also allege that Qatar spent Â£117m on its controversial bid for the 2022 World Cup, six times that England spent on its doomed attempt to land the 2018 tournament. 
â€œI was told by two sources that have always been very reliable with good information, good intelligence that the sum that Qatar had spent on their bid was one hundred and seventeen million poundsâ€ 
Lord Triesman, the former FA chairman who led Englandâ€™s 2018 World Cup bid 
Lord Triesman, the former FA chairman who led Englandâ€™s bid, said he was given the figure by sources close to British intelligence. 
The ex-Foreign Office minister said: â€œI was told by two sources that have always been very reliable with good information, good intelligence that the sum that Qatar had spent on their bid was one hundred and seventeen million pounds.â€ 
Qatar has repeatedly denied paying bribes to Fifa officials in order to secure the 2022 World Cup. 
Two-thirds of the men who voted in the 2010 ballot that saw Russia and Qatar secure the next two tournaments are either facing punishment or have already been sanctioned for ethics breaches. 
:: Panorama: FIFA, Sepp Blatter and Me, BBC One, Monday night at 8:30pm.
 
 
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FIFA Officials Arrested