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This is loving insane and fantastic at the same time. I've always wondered if there is a way to eliminate the current crooked management of FIFA, but I'd never thought the Americans would boldly take on the challenge. The RICO deal sounds quite bad as well... FBI and the Swiss guys would not have gone for such high profile arrests if they didn't have enough dirt to lock these guys away. The only question is, do they have some dirt on Blatter as well? Because seeing that guy behind bars would be the greatest thing that ever happened in football.
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pentyne posted:Yes. Obviously FIFA couldn't outright say "Drop it or you'll be banned from the world cup" but their influence over football is so massive that any country that cares about it has to play along and wait their turn to bribe the officials. This actually works both ways... for example when the Russian soldiers shot down the Malaysian Boeing 777 in Ukraine, which was full of Netherlands citizens, there was talk that they might pull out of the 2018 World Cup in Russia as a protest. If you want to stir up some serious poo poo, all you need is two important footballing nations in heart of Europe who might be enemies on the football field, but culturally closer to each other, such as Netherlands and Germany, or Italy and France, to be seriously pissed off at FIFA. If for any reason two countries like that decided to boycott a World Cup, there would be a massive outcry from all over Europe and you can bet that at least some heads in FIFA would roll.
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May 28, 2015 00:19
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:The Swiss are apparently prohibiting Blatter from leaving Switzerland right now. If that is true, I think Blatter might be very close to a panic attack right now. He has considered himself absolutely untouchable for the past two decades, around the globe. I guess he failed to take into consideration the simple fact that the Americans don't give a poo poo about football. God bless America 
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May 28, 2015 00:54
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Eel hovercraft posted:Woah, Putin cracked the case: This is somewhat significant. Putin doesn't always comment on issues like these, usually it's done by junior ministers in the government or Duma members and such. I'm wondering if there are surprising details coming out regarding Blatter and his warm feelings towards the Putin administration.
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May 28, 2015 12:13
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Just imagine if Blatter gets arrested right after he is declared the winner for the next term of FIFA presidency.
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May 28, 2015 20:56
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The Born Approx. posted:So in other words, there's really no reason to give a single gently caress about this case? What do I care if FIFA runs itself into the ground through inefficient business practices? Depressing, but not surprising, that this is what the U.S. is going after them for when there are far more egregious issues to consider. On top of other reasons mentioned here, I wouldn't want those corrupt FIFA crooks anywhere near Football, the King of Sports. I want it to be clean and fair, and it just isn't at the moment. pentyne posted:4-500 deaths projected for Qatar to finish their world cup stadiums, a bid that should have never been accepted as its literally impossible to play soccer there during June/July so FIFA moved the world cup to Jan/Feb which will impact the Euro leagues drastically, to which FIFA said "Tough poo poo". I have no idea how this is supposed to work. And did you guys know that the decision to move the World Cup in Qatar to December came only quite recently? Until that moment they literally thought that it's possible to play football in +45 C weather. But I have more shocking news. The Estonian representative in FIFA said that there is a small possibility that if Blatter is re-elected, that UEFA might pull out of FIFA and subsequently, from the 2018 World Cup as well.
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May 29, 2015 10:01
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PT6A posted:What's with all these events (FIFA events, Olympics, F1 races) being awarded to horrible shitholes exclusively, anyway? Can't a halfway decent place put together a decent bribe? There is less oversight and less public outrcries. Which means more money to the pockets of top FIFA officials and their cronies.
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May 29, 2015 11:54
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Venmoch posted:Now adding insult to injury. Looks like the UK's Serious Fraud Office may also be getting involved. I think a lot of people smell blood. This is going to become very interesting in the next few weeks.
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May 29, 2015 12:15
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Blatter is in a category of his own when it comes oozing loving corruption out of every pore in his body. You can see the crookedness on his ugly face. There are precious few cunts like him in the world. Berlusconi is another one that comes to mind. And Henry Paulson.
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May 30, 2015 20:59
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SgtScruffy posted:Part of me is worried super loving excited that somehow, all of the FIFA execs are going to start talking, and this thing is going to spawn revelations that no one expected and have huge over-the-top ramifications. Like, every elected european official has been bribed and every CEO of every major sponsor has been personally bribed. I know it won't be that crazy, but imagine the chaos of every few days, a new elected official or board member getting arrested This is a pretty accurate description of what a huge clusterfuck of corruption FIFA really is. I wouldn't be surprised, not one bit.
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Slaan posted:Jerome is a French name, and he is the sender, so I think it was bad knowledge of English rather than French? Or it could be both? A lot of quite wealthy people over the age of 50 have real trouble with anything remotely modern in technology.
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http://tass.ru/en/sport/824270 lol Russian minister of sport afraid to leave the country and go to Switzerland. I'm guessing the wont even go near North-America.
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McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Budweiser and Visa demand Blatter to step down. Blatter through his lawyer: "I respectfully disagree". Those companies have give over 1,6 billion to FIFA between 2011 and 2014. Source: Financial Times  Blatter is SO hosed.
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