US to charge FIFA for corruption!

[Balthazar]

Breaking news: Sepp Blatter has been re-elected as the president of FIFA, defeating Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan.

Another failed coup.

[bryant.coleman]

Breaking news: Sepp Blatter has been re-elected as the president of FIFA, defeating Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan.

Another failed coup.

Too early to predict anything. First, the blackmail tactics (arresting FIFA officials) failed. Now the Americans have been dealt another blow, as they have lost the democratic process. But we should remember that democracy matters very little for the American lobby. May be now it is time for them to attempt a "coup" a la Ukraine.

[Falconer]

Breaking news: Sepp Blatter has been re-elected as the president of FIFA, defeating Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan. In the first round, Blatter received 133 votes (140 is needed for an outright win, i.e two-third of the votes). His opponent managed to secure just 73 votes, mostly from the North American and Western European regions.

Wow the corruption will never end, and Blatter will become the president until he bored. I think he won because didn't get capable rival, or maybe he have paid some bucks to voters  . Actually I still want Michel Platini to deserve the position.

[galdur]

Has the FIFA corruption crisis saved Israel from vote to expel it from world football?

Geoff Lee 27 May 2015.

The FIFA corruption crisis came just as its annual congress was due to debate a motion calling for Israel to be suspended from world football.

One consequence of the US order to the Swiss police, on 27 May 2015, that it arrest and extradite seven FIFA officials for alleged corruption, could be that a vote to kick Israel out of world football for its racism towards Palestinians will now not take place. The vote was due to be held by the FIFA annual congress on 29 May and expected to win majority support among the delegates. Below Geoff Lee from Palestine Solidarity Campaign explains why the vote should go ahead. ....

http://stopwar.org.uk/news/fifa-vote-to-kick-israel-out-of-world-football-conveniently-blocked-by-us-intervention

[Aggressor66]

The World Cup is the most lucrative sporting event in the world, eclipsing even the Olympics.
The 2014 qualifying rounds and final tournament brought in $4.8bn (£3.1bn) over four years and, after costs are taken into account, Fifa made a profit of more than $2bn 

[bryant.coleman]

The World Cup is the most lucrative sporting event in the world, eclipsing even the Olympics.
The 2014 qualifying rounds and final tournament brought in $4.8bn (£3.1bn) over four years and, after costs are taken into account, Fifa made a profit of more than $2bn  

Whatever profits they make are invested back in to developing football in countries were it is not popular, or building facilities where they are not available. At least FIFA is run by people who want football to grow, unlike the case with games such as cricket (and its official body, the International Cricket Council or ICC).

[maheshmahi]

The Defendants Include Two Current FIFA Vice Presidents and the Current and Former Presidents of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF); Seven Defendants Arrested Overseas; Guilty Pleas for Four Individual Defendants and Two Corporate Defendants Also Unsealed

[Aggressor66]

The Defendants Include Two Current FIFA Vice Presidents and the Current and Former Presidents of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF); Seven Defendants Arrested Overseas; Guilty Pleas for Four Individual Defendants and Two Corporate Defendants Also Unsealed

[Daniel91]

Blatter is in FIFA since 1991 and until now he managed to avoid all attacks and threats on his absolute power in FIFA.
For the small countries in Africa and Asia, he is the Messiah and they absolutely support him in each election.
It seems that Blatter can only be stopped by USA police, if they arrested him.
Otherwise, he will rule forever

[Benjig]

It all comes down to how FIFA is organized. Each of the 209 member nations gets a single vote when it comes to electing a federation President and executive committee. That means that the Maldives, Trinidad & Tobago, or Andorra have the same say in federation decisions as Brazil, Germany, or England. The smaller countries, and the men who run their countries’ federations, also receive an equal cut of FIFA’s revenues which means there’s no incentive for them to change any of the structure to the voting process.

[Spendulus]

US to charge FIFA for corruption?

Well, okay.

But who is going to charge the US with corruption?

[bryant.coleman]

It all comes down to how FIFA is organized. Each of the 209 member nations gets a single vote when it comes to electing a federation President and executive committee. That means that the Maldives, Trinidad & Tobago, or Andorra have the same say in federation decisions as Brazil, Germany, or England. The smaller countries, and the men who run their countries’ federations, also receive an equal cut of FIFA’s revenues which means there’s no incentive for them to change any of the structure to the voting process.

That's how it should be run. It should not be like the United Nations vote, where 5 nations hold veto rights and the other 200 members don't have any say in any of the resolutions. No one should be special. Every country should be having equal rights, like that in FIFA. If you give controlling vote to 4 or 5 nations, then why the remaining nations should participate in FIFA?

[freemind1]

FIFA is always just been to a well of corruption, for many years, now can no longer cover it and encounter the problem.

[WhatTheGox]

This doesn't come as a surprise to me. Someone has to stop these fixed games that have been going on for quite some time now.
I was slowly getting tired, as betting was quite harder because of it.

Nothing to do with fixed games. It's all about where and how the games take place. The whole bullshit surrounding how Qatar got the world cup was probably the final straw. There's vast amounts of politics, prestige and money tied up in where international games take place.

A friend of mine worked for FIFA for many years. The amount of boondoggling that takes place at every single level is relentless.

I dont know what they will try and charge FIFA on but match fixing is still so obvious in all professional sport.  Once they hit the top level the teams/players create a monopoly it makes sense to channel extra income.

[311]

It's funny how pretty much everyone was charged except Sepp. He's probably the biggest corrupt fuck there is. He's been holding the game back for years in various ways. No idea how he got voted in again. It's been obvious for quite some time that Russia and Qatar bought their World Cup hostings. Blatter needs to go.

[bryant.coleman]

It's funny how pretty much everyone was charged except Sepp. He's probably the biggest corrupt fuck there is. He's been holding the game back for years in various ways. No idea how he got voted in again. It's been obvious for quite some time that Russia and Qatar bought their World Cup hostings. Blatter needs to go.

Do you have any proof for your argument that Blatter has been "holding the game back for years in various ways"? As far as I know, he was the one who did a great deal to promote the game outside its strongholds in the Latin America and Europe. If soccer is currently played in more than 200 nations, a part of the credit should go to Sepp Blatter. He undertook several development projects in regions such as Africa and Asia. And his effort has already started to pay off.

[311]

It's funny how pretty much everyone was charged except Sepp. He's probably the biggest corrupt fuck there is. He's been holding the game back for years in various ways. No idea how he got voted in again. It's been obvious for quite some time that Russia and Qatar bought their World Cup hostings. Blatter needs to go.

Do you have any proof for your argument that Blatter has been "holding the game back for years in various ways"? As far as I know, he was the one who did a great deal to promote the game outside its strongholds in the Latin America and Europe. If soccer is currently played in more than 200 nations, a part of the credit should go to Sepp Blatter. He undertook several development projects in regions such as Africa and Asia. And his effort has already started to pay off.

Football being played all over the world has nothing to do with him. It was already being played in those places regardless of 'development projects'. His refusal to allow both goal-line technology and video replays for years when everyone else was calling for it was bizarre and illogical.

[Aggressor66]

Fifa president Sepp Blatter is the victim of a conspiracy from "behind the scenes", his daughter has told the BBC amid the corruption crisis gripping world football.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32952426

[bryant.coleman]

Football being played all over the world has nothing to do with him. It was already being played in those places regardless of 'development projects'.

Football was being played in Asia and Africa for many decades. But they were lacking facilities, and the football boards in these regions had hardly any voice in the day-to-day running of FIFA. Blatter changed all that. He ended the European-American monopoly, and gave power to the boards in Africa, Asia and Oceania.

[BRE]

Fifa president Sepp Blatter is the victim of a conspiracy from "behind the scenes", his daughter has told the BBC amid the corruption crisis gripping world football.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32952426

"Nobody is without fault but he is not the person who is taking money, Corinne Blatter said "

Well i don't believe it.He transformed from a simple organizer of the World Cup into a multibillion-dollar juggernaut.
Impossible if he doesn't know about bribe, corruptions etc in FIFA, he was president of FIFA since 1998.