ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

apparently it's been a thing since 1936

I thought it was added in the 1990s because of NBA bullshit or something

chuggo is BACK posted:

rear end poo poo ball

quote:

@LastWeekTonight 33m33 minutes ago
We've received several inquiries as to whether tonight's show will cover the recent FIFA developments, and to that we say...#NoSpoilers.

joshtothemaxx posted:

John Oliver killed it again tonight. Go watch it now.

Kinetica posted:

I hope it gets uploaded soon so I can watch it, this should be amazing

Vinestalk posted:

I think I'm still the only person in TRP that likes olympic football. It has more parity than the world cup and much more open play and England can't compete in it. It's pretty great.

Bogan Krkic posted:

I like Olympic football because watching any level of football is cool and good imo

Vinestalk posted:

I think I'm still the only person in TRP that likes olympic football. It has more parity than the world cup and much more open play and England can't compete in it. It's pretty great.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

I like Olympic football because the Olympics is the only time of year I even remotely give a poo poo about sports and I go all in for those few weeks.

NattyBo posted:

"Diamond" Jack Warner has released a facebook video in response to the allegations. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=836427333110960

He cites The Onion as a serious source. It's pretty hilarious.

corn in the fridge posted:

then why are you posting in this thread??????????????

corn in the fridge posted:

then why are you posting in this thread??????????????

vyelkin posted:

Hey everybody, first time soccer watcher but I am a HUGE fan of the United States Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service. Just wondering who I should pick as my team if I want to root for the soccer equivalent of the Eastern District of New York Attorney's Office? Thanks, bye.

vyelkin posted:

Hey everybody, first time soccer watcher but I am a HUGE fan of the United States Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service. Just wondering who I should pick as my team if I want to root for the soccer equivalent of the Eastern District of New York Attorney's Office? Thanks, bye.

Vinestalk posted:

I think I'm still the only person in TRP that likes olympic football. It has more parity than the world cup and much more open play and England can't compete in it. It's pretty great.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

I like Olympic football because the Olympics is the only time of year I even remotely give a poo poo about sports and I go all in for those few weeks.

ronniegardocki posted:

who cares about "parity"?

Mr. Mambold posted:

Remember young Messi and the Iraqi team that told George Bush to gently caress off? Priceless.

Blue Star Error posted:

Spurs

Blue Star Error posted:

Spurs

Jet Jaguar posted:

John Oliver on Last Week Tonight is prepared to make some serious sacrifices for Sepp to go away.

Drogadon posted:

Ninpo posted:

Can anyone translate for this ignorant monolingual Englishman?

quote:

Federal authorities believe that Sepp Blatter’s top lieutenant at FIFA made $10 million in bank transactions that are central elements of the bribery scandal engulfing international soccer, United States officials and others briefed on the case said Monday. The revelation puts the money trail closer to Mr. Blatter, FIFA’s president, than had been previously known.

Jérôme Valcke, the soccer organization’s secretary general, is the unidentified “high-ranking FIFA official” who prosecutors say transferred $10 million in 2008 from FIFA to accounts controlled by another soccer official, Jack Warner, the officials said. The payment is a key piece of last week’s indictment accusing Mr. Warner of taking a bribe in exchange for helping South Africa secure the right to host the 2010 World Cup.

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The $10 million payment, made in three wire transfers in January and March 2008, is described in the indictment in paragraph No. 192 and has prompted questions about which top FIFA executive was responsible. “Definitely that is not me,” Mr. Blatter said last week after he was re-elected as FIFA’s president and reporters asked if he was the unidentified official. “I have no $10 million.”

The charges, which were unsealed last Wednesday morning in United States District Court in Brooklyn, coupled with the arrests at dawn of several high-ranking FIFA officials at a luxury hotel in Zurich, were stunning even by the standards of international soccer, which has been dogged by allegations of corruption for years. Swiss authorities also raided FIFA’s headquarters as part of a separate investigation into how FIFA chose the host countries for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

Mr. Valcke, of France, has previously been involved in financial controversy. He joined FIFA in 2003 as its marketing director but was fired in December 2006 after a New York judge ruled that he and others lied repeatedly in negotiations with MasterCard and Visa over a sponsorship deal.

“The fact cannot be overlooked that FIFA’s negotiations breached its business principles,” FIFA said in its news release at the time. “FIFA cannot possibly accept such conduct among its own employees.”

A federal appeals court threw out the ruling the next May. The next month, days after FIFA reached a settlement with MasterCard, Mr. Blatter chose Mr. Valcke to be secretary general, the organization’s No. 2 post. Mr. Valcke was never charged with a crime in that case.

In an interview with the Sunday Independent, a South African newspaper, Mr. Jordaan said the timing of the payment proved that it could not have been a bribe. “How could we have paid a bribe for votes four years after we had won the bid?” he said.

American prosecutors, however, say the bribery scheme played out over several years. In 2004, as FIFA’s executive committee considered where to host the 2010 World Cup, South Africa’s government agreed to pay Mr. Warner and others $10 million in exchange for their votes, according to the indictment.

Mr. Warner voted for South Africa, but in the months and years after the vote, South Africa was unable to pay. So rather than take a payment directly from South Africa, the indictment says, FIFA itself paid Mr. Warner in 2008, using money that would otherwise have gone to South Africa to support the World Cup.

In effect, the indictment says the bribe was paid on the back end of the deal, so South Africa received $10 million less from FIFA than it otherwise would have.

Mr. Jordaan said the money was sent to the accounts of Concacaf, a FIFA entity that oversees soccer in North and Central America, as part of South Africa’s effort to support soccer there. Mr. Warner was Concacaf’s president at the time and controlled the accounts. Prosecutors say he took much of the $10 million for his personal use. Mr. Warner has maintained his innocence and said the United States brought the charges because it lost the bidding to host the 2022 World Cup.

FIFA announced Monday that, “due to the current situation,” Mr. Valcke would not attend the opening of the Women’s World Cup in Canada next week. “It is important that he attends to matters at FIFA’s headquarters in Zurich,” the organization said in a news release.

trem_two posted:

The NY Times is reporting that FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke was the official that made the $10m transfer to Jack Warner in exchange for the South Africa votes.

Antares posted:

he makes the world as wide as he likes it, i think. there might be a double entendre on the second part but dr. google just brings up the pippi longstockings song.

credentials: i got a B in german over a dozen years ago.

trem_two posted:

The NY Times is reporting that FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke was the official that made the $10m transfer to Jack Warner in exchange for the South Africa votes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/s...ibery-case.html

TheBigAristotle posted:

The Telegraph is saying UEFA plans to upstage the World Cup

Good loving joke