Fifa Corruption

[Chicog]

What does it matter who runs when all these appallingly corrupt football chiefs from backwater shitholes will vote in the person who has been stuffing cash in their pockets for so long?

[carmine]

What does it matter who runs when all these appallingly corrupt football chiefs from backwater shitholes will vote in the person who has been stuffing cash in their pockets for so long?

Yes and doesn't Blatter have the look of someone that knows he's won it already.

[StevieH]

the ballot paper last time out. not a joke by the way.

[carmine]

the ballot paper last time out. not a joke by the way.

Or rather, an enormous joke!

[StevieH]

2022 world cup final on december 23rd anyone?

and fifa confirms that clubs will not be compensated for it. what a genuinely despicable pile of vomit this all is. b*stards.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/25/2022-world-cup-fifa-uefa-no-compensation

[BlueScouse]

There have been some meetings in Switzerland.

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2015/02/24/christmas-to-be-moved-to-accommodate-qatar-world-cup/

[rott]

Why is it that the good die young and yet...........

Would a moderator please move this post to another forum, as this has nothing to do with football and is a theological question.

It was more of a rhetorical question than a theological question Oldgit. The "and yet......" at the end meant I didn't really expect an answer. The underlying question I was asking was that Blatter is a crook and although he is 78/79 he doesn't look like he will be leaving football to try and heal itself from the damage he has caused, until he is in his grave. Sorry for any confusion.

Not sure who is pulling whose leg here.

[SantiSuk]

Sky just reported that Sepp has already got more than half the votes in next months coronation of his fifth term. The African rep has just stated that all 54 African nations will vote for him, which on top of the promised 43 votes from Asia gets him past the post. Most of the endemically corrupt nations are in those two regions (plus South America). I guess they can spot a kindred bwana when they see one.

Makes you spit!

Edited April 7, 2015 by SantiSuk

[StevieH]

and what lad? locked up.

[StevieH]

up to a dozen senior FIFA executives have just been arrested in zurich and face extradition to the US as part of an investigation into FIFA corruption. blimey.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/sports/soccer/fifa-officials-face-corruption-charges-in-us.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

edit: jack warner and jeffrey webb now named among those arrested. charges said to include wire fraud, money laundering and racketeering. now need one of these to sing like a canary and bring emperor sepp down.

Edited May 27, 2015 by StevieH

[smokie36]

up to a dozen senior FIFA executives have just been arrested in zurich and face extradition to the US as part of an investigation into FIFA corruption. blimey.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/sports/soccer/fifa-officials-face-corruption-charges-in-us.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

edit: jack warner and jeffrey webb now named among those arrested. charges said to include wire fraud, money laundering and racketeering. now need one of these to sing like a canary and bring emperor sepp down.

Not before time.

Expect to see the FIFA offices moving to Venezuela soon!

[StevieH]

they'd have them covered there too i think smokie - jeffrey webb is the president of CONCACAF that includes the USA national team and covers south america too.

apparently a swiss agent just left the hotel with two big bags of evidence. sadly blatter isn't among those arrested. not yet anyway.

[smokie36]

they'd have them covered there too i think smokie - jeffrey webb is the president of CONCACAF that includes the USA national team and covers south america too.

apparently a swiss agent just left the hotel with two big bags of evidence. sadly blatter isn't among those arrested. not yet anyway.

If there is really going to be a huge trial I can't see Blatter escaping unscathed....and all the while his disgusting "re-election" moves on......

[StevieH]

the election is tomorrow. his press conference should be interesting.

needs one of them to turn on him though and that involves one or more of them facing actual jail time, which i find hard to believe will happen. never know though. can't imagine jack warner remaining loyal if he's got the prospect of a few years porridge ahead of him.

[nev]

About bloody time, I do not watch international football and I did not watch the last world cup mainly due to the corruption involved, for me league football not matter which league or standard>international football.

[StevieH]

62 workers will die for each match to be played at the 2022 world cup. sickening stuff.

How many slave deaths for the Qatar World Cup can Fifa put up with?

Marina Hyde

Fifa’s president Sepp Blatter could change lives of World Cup labourers at a stroke by threatening to deprive Qatar of 2022 tournament

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/may/20/slave-deaths-qatar-world-cup-2022-fifa

Clearly there must be a magic number of slave deaths in the world’s richest country that would render the Qatar World Cup a moral and political no-no. But what is that number? What is the ballpark figure where deaths in the construction of ballparks become unacceptable?

The question is not believed to be keeping Sepp Blatter awake at night. Something tells me the Fifa president sleeps the bewilderingly untroubled sleep that only a certain stripe of western leader enjoys. (Do recall that Tony Blair actually had to be woken up to be told the bombing of Baghdad he had co-ordered was soon to begin.)

Fifa’s sponsors, though, are deemed more reachable. This week has seen the launch of a campaign by the International Trade Union Confederation, Play Fair Qatar and the NewFifaNow group to shame them with the appalling conditions endured by labourers building tournament infrastructure for 2022. “As things stand,” declares Play Fair Qatar, “more than 62 workers will die for each game played during the 2022 tournament.”

To repeat: more than 62 per game. Perhaps players in every match could each wear 62 black armbands. Then again, that would probably contravene Fifa’s strict rules on what constitutes official kit, infringements of which it punishes ferociously. On infringements such as mass slave death, however, the evidence suggests it is more relaxed.

But that’s Blatter for you. When he talks about football, you never really know which version of the game is going to turn up. Either it is the super-powered version, able to heal the planet. Or it’s just a lil ol’ sport, doing its best to get by in a world of forces beyond its control. By way of an example of the former, Blatter was recently fluffing another dictatorship. “Honoured to meet the King and the PM of Bahrain,” he tweeted. “Very encouraged by their support of the role football can play to bring peace to the region.” To which the only possible response is: good luck with that, football! What are you going to do about Islamic State? Catch it in the offside trap?

Alongside such arrant cobblers runs a whole series of Fifa initiatives designed to reinforce the idea that it is Earth’s most effectively exercised soft power. Take the Football for Hope programme, where it makes participating delegations play in a tournament without referees. “Any disagreements on the pitch will be resolved through dialogue,” insists a piece of fatuous Fifa gesture politics, “a method proven to encourage personal development and mutual understanding”.

Maybe it could redeploy the spare match officials to stand on Qatar construction sites and raise their flags every time something looks a bit off. “Referee! This 27-year-old indentured Nepali has just DIED OF HEART FAILURE, along with 300 of his countrymen. Can we get a decision here?”

Typically, this would be the sort of moment that Blatter reflexively switches to that second view of football – or rather Fifa – as an essentially powerless entity. Companies “are responsible for their workers”, he has said on the ongoing Qatar disgrace, “not Fifa”.

His hands are tied, you see – except of course, they aren’t. We all know Fifa could change the lives of the World Cup labourers at a stroke by threatening to deprive Qatar of its precious tournament. It goes without saying that the Qatar government is capable of working within humane labour laws: it certainly manages it in all the bits of London it has bought.

But neither wants to. Which brings us to the other strand of this week’s Qatar news: the detention of the BBC crew who attempted to film the labour villages and were detained by Qatari police who warned: “This is not Disneyland.” Honey, even Disneyland isn’t Disneyland, as all manner of exposés of life at the House of Mouse will attest. But at least it isn’t a slave-labour state where survival is a bonus.

Perhaps most telling is Qatar’s official statement offered on the BBC crew’s arrest, which begins: “The government communications office invited a dozen reporters to see – first-hand – some substandard labour accommodation as well as some of the newer labour villages.”

Isn’t there something sociopathic about that “substandard”? Who on earth arranges official tours to “substandard” venues, if they are the very people who could improve them? When human living conditions are demonstrably substandard, you would hope the priority would be to fix them, as opposed to inviting overseas media to fly over at an appointed date, then waiting for that date, then escorting the travelling party there and trilling something along the lines of: “We’re totally going to get these guys sanitation at some point, but we just wanted to show you their substandard lack of it first. Anyhoo, have a quick look round their hovel, and then we must be getting back on the bus in order to make cocktails on the 170th floor of the Diamond Penis building.” Shame on the BBC for suspecting there may be a standard that is sub the official version of substandard.

As for where we go from here, identifying that magic number is becoming increasingly unavoidable. For what little it’s worth, I am in favour of sporting boycotts only in extremis, and never envy those administrators charged with making such incredibly difficult decisions. But if 62 poverty-stricken deaths per game in the richest country in the world doesn’t count as extremis, then our own FA will eventually have to tell us what does.

[StevieH]

"Football Association of Thailand president Worawi Makudi was one of several FIFA officials arrested”.

shocked. shocked i tell you.

[smokie36]

"Football Association of Thailand president Worawi Makudi was one of several FIFA officials arrested”.

shocked. shocked i tell you.

LOL it would be a shock if the Thai bloke wasn't taking backhanders!

[Chicog]

"Football Association of Thailand president Worawi Makudi was one of several FIFA officials arrested”.

shocked. shocked i tell you.

It will be the nasty farangs fault of course.

[StevieH]

"Football Association of Thailand president Worawi Makudi was one of several FIFA officials arrested”.

shocked. shocked i tell you.

It will be the nasty farangs fault of course.

article in the nation naming him has now been edited to remove his name from the piece. haha. none more thai.

[Farma]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/fifa-arrests-six-top-officials-arrested-on-charges-of-wire-fraud-racketeering-and-money-laundering/story-fndkzvnd-1227371402996

The officials include CONCACAF President and FIFA Vice President Jeffrey Webb, Eduadio Li, Eugenio Figueredo, the former president of the South America association; former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner, Julio Rocha, Costas Takkas, Rafael Esquivel, José Maria Marin and Nicolás Leoz.

Charges were also expected against sports-marketing executives Alejandro Burzaco, Aaron Davidson, Hugo Jinkis, Mariano Jinkis.

[whatawonderfulday]

"Football Association of Thailand president Worawi Makudi was one of several FIFA officials arrested”.

shocked. shocked i tell you.

Think this is not yet confirmed that the Thai FIFA president is one of them. Considering the amount involved, US $ 100 million, and there appears to be 6 persons involved, I would be surprised if a Thai FIFA president would consider taking bribes as poultry as around 16 million given Thais anti corruption policies since 1932.

Edited May 27, 2015 by whatawonderfulday

[StevieH]

"Football Association of Thailand president Worawi Makudi was one of several FIFA officials arrested”.

shocked. shocked i tell you.

Think this is not yet confirmed that the Thai FIFA president is one of them. Considering the amount involved, US $ 100 million, and there appears to be 6 persons involved, I would be surprised if a Thai FIFA president would consider taking bribes as poultry as around 16 million given Thais anti corruption policies since 1932.

indeed. that would be chicken feed.

possible that someone has put 2 and 2 together here and got half a dozen. think worawi was implicated in the voting for the 2018 world cup and accused of corruption by england for selling his vote having promised it to them. don't recall quite was or wasn't proven though.

[wilai]

Ironically, FIFA have been trying to get the Yanks interested in football for many years! They've finally succeeded....well the FBI at least

[IMA_FARANG]

Breaking News........27 May 2015

The BBC world service has just announced that 6 figures from FIFA have been detained and arrested in Zurich.

They are apparently officials from the Americas.....North America,Central America, and South America ,,,, they are being arrested in association of alleged possible bribe allegations.

This is a new breaking news allegation, and as lf yet the names of these FIFA officials are not being released.

Swiss officials are going to be holding a press conference in a few hours to discuss the persons involved .....where supposedly names and details will be revealed.

According to the BBC the arrests are from warrants issued in the U.S from an ongoing investigation of FIFA officials in the Americas and the U.S.

Edited May 27, 2015 by IMA_FARANG

[Chicog]

Who's good with Photoshop?

[SantiSuk]

Potentially a real high profile coup for American justice and a severe indictment of the failure of football in its traditional old country markets, particularly the UK.

OK we Brits winged a lot and the UK press are probably instrumental in the big picture leading up to this. But where were the FA? You lot can come out from behind the sofa now. Try growing a pair next time.

[Chicog]

Potentially a real high profile coup for American justice and a severe indictment of the failure of football in its traditional old country markets, particularly the UK.

OK we Brits winged a lot and the UK press are probably instrumental in the big picture leading up to this. But where were the FA? You lot can come out from behind the sofa now. Try growing a pair next time.

What does the FA have to do with this? They've been quite open about what they know.

This is a criminal investigation.

Let's hope their flights to face American justice are already organised.

[Chicog]

[Chicog]

In the past whenever governments have tried to investigate national FA's Blatter has come steaming in and threatened to suspend the national team from all competition, and because governments don't want to upset the footballing public they've invariably backed down.

Well now is the chance for them to get in there and arrest these corrupt little scrotes who've been selling their votes to Blatter for years.

Find out how much he paid them and what they did with it.

Knock over those dominoes and you get rid of Blatter.