Kurtofan posted:

Azerbaijan is going to get them some day, they have a lot of gas.

They already hosted the Eurovision.

Byolante posted:

I will retweet but I don't like bananas so I won't eat one and instagram it, sorry.

stickyfngrdboy posted:

I bet Putin is laughing his nuts off at this, what with everyone completely ignoring that his country is not fit to host a world cup in 4 years time.

The Mash posted:

gently caress that. Don't change anything. The game is perfect.

Ziggy Tzardust posted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27841486

FIFA have banned Franz Beckenbauer for 90 days. I assume they're trying to scapegoat him.

Kurtofan posted:

Just like the Sochi Olympics were a force of good

corpuscollossus posted:

Sepp Satan Fucker posted:

We can't play in summer. We must find a solution. The best possible date is by the end of the year. That's the best solution for me. We've worked with the international calendar. At first it was possible, but now it's become a bit harder. However, the World Cup is really important!

Jose posted:

Qatar are paying North Korea for a load of Koreans to help build the city for the world cup

quote:

“With regard to the story in Der Spiegel, FIFA wants to reiterate that the information provided by the sources‎ does not reflect what actually happened at the dinner in question, which was held during the FIFA President’s visit to Oslo in October.

“The claims made by the sources are unfounded. The 2022 FIFA World Cup will take place in Qatar.

“Among the subjects discussed that evening were in fact the Handshake for Peace project – a joint initiative between the Norwegian FA, the Nobel Peace Center and FIFA – and the impending Uefa Euro 2016 qualifying match between Norway and Bulgaria, at which FIFA President was present that evening as a guest of honour at the invitation of the Norwegian FA.

“The topics of Qatar and the 2022 World Cup were talked about very briefly. Dates were discussed as there are presently discussions taking place to determine when will be the best time to stage the tournament in that calendar year and the Emir, who had visited FIFA President Blatter only a few days earlier in Zurich, was mentioned.

“In this context, the FIFA President spoke of how, in the meeting in Zurich, he had congratulated the Emir on speaking clearly during the previous day’s state visit to Germany, where the Emir had met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.”

“In response to a journalist’s question as to whether Qatar was financing the Islamic State (IS) group, the Emir refuted the suggestion in no uncertain terms. FIFA President Blatter praised the Emir for that in Zurich and mentioned it in conversation at the table in Oslo,” FIFA added.

“In no way did the FIFA President associate Qatar with IS. The atmosphere at this dinner with the Executive Committee members of the Norwegian FA was pleasant, friendly and relaxed.”

vyelkin posted:

Even if this report were 100% accurate and there was no corruption in the Qatar bid, all that would prove is that the FIFA ExCo are absolutely terrible at their jobs and should all be sacked anyway for gross negligence and incompetence, not to mention complicity in gross human rights violations.

Crazy Ted posted:

Actually he's setting himself up to be banned for life after some mysterious corruption charges against him materialize out of nowhere.

straight up brolic posted:

lol at anyone who thinks this will change anything, all of the power is consolidated in europe and you'd be a fool to think that blatter and the true elites within the organization didn't have themselves legally isolated from charges.


it's just a long jail sentence for a few of the most obvious cronies and further bad PR for FIFA, but we can see from their public ostensible endorsement of slave labor that they don't really give a poo poo.

serious gaylord posted:

I dunno, Commebol is a very large association that has a lot of power with regards to elections. Much like africa is full of loving easily bribed countries. You take away the easy votes and then things start to get a bit more difficult to bribe your way through.

The damage will also come from the fact some of these guys were about to be part of the executive committee, or indeed were already serving on it. Further criminalises blatter by association.