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FIFA officials arrested in 'dawn raid' over FBI corruption investigation

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  • Browns149B Browns149

    @baconhound said:

    Corruption in a sports organization, I'm shocked 😉

    Let's not make Qatar out to be Iran. Qatar has the highest GDP per capita and 14% of their population are millionaires.

    Of course they are the richest country.

    They hate EVERY person, unless they are male and rich

    B BaconHound wrote on
    #12

    @browns149 said:

    Of course they are the richest country.

    They hate EVERY person, unless they are male and rich

    Sounds like our Founding Fathers 🙂

  • gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #13

    Something I neglected to add - the elections for FIFA presidency are happening today, now. There were calls for it to be postponed until this was all resolved, but no. There were calls for Blatter (incumbent) to resign, as any disgraced leader would, be it politics or business or whatever, but no.

  • gftChrisG gftChris

    Something I neglected to add - the elections for FIFA presidency are happening today, now. There were calls for it to be postponed until this was all resolved, but no. There were calls for Blatter (incumbent) to resign, as any disgraced leader would, be it politics or business or whatever, but no.

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #14

    @gftchris said:

    Something I neglected to add - the elections for FIFA presidency are happening today, now. There were calls for it to be postponed until this was all resolved, but no. There were calls for Blatter (incumbent) to resign, as any disgraced leader would, be it politics or business or whatever, but no.

    I hear he got re-elected. Fox watching the henhouse.

  • gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #15

    Yep. Not shocked.

  • Browns149B Browns149 wrote on
    #16

    I wonder what the guy that withdrew got.

    "And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve."
    gftChrisG B 2 Replies
  • Browns149B Browns149

    I wonder what the guy that withdrew got.

    gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #17

    @browns149 said:

    I wonder what the guy that withdrew got.

    The antidote, probably.

  • Browns149B Browns149

    I wonder what the guy that withdrew got.

    B BaconHound wrote on
    #18

    @browns149 said:

    I wonder what the guy that withdrew got.

    I believe he needed 2/3s in the first round but fell considerably short. To save face he withdrew, not uncommon I guess.

  • B BaconHound

    @browns149 said:

    I wonder what the guy that withdrew got.

    I believe he needed 2/3s in the first round but fell considerably short. To save face he withdrew, not uncommon I guess.

    gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #19

    @baconhound said:

    I believe he needed 2/3s in the first round but fell considerably short. To save face he withdrew, not uncommon I guess.

    yeah pretty much. The election goes something like:

    First round - if anyone gets a 2/3 majority they win, stop. Otherwise, eliminate candidates who got under x% of the vote (don't remember how much) and proceed to round 2.

    Second round - if any of the remaining candidates get more than 50%, they win, stop. Otherwise, rinse and repeat by removing the lowest scoring candidate until someone gets a majority.

  • gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #20

    And this just in, South Africa made a $10m definitely-not-a-bribe-but-just-to-say-thanks-ahead-of-time payment to FIFA, to host the world cup in 2010, which in a completely unrelated turn of events was redistributed to the association of the head of the central america association, who then in an unforeseeable turn of events managed to convince all the members in his jurisdiction to vote for south africa.

    Seems legit.

    The GipperT 1 Reply
  • gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #21

    I know it probably doesn't get so much traction over there, but the world of soccer is currently thanking the FBI very, very much for having the balls to do what everyone else should have done a long time ago.

    The GipperT 1 Reply
  • L LondonBrown wrote on
    #22

    How Blatter has the front to not only not resign, but to again stand up and want to be re-elected is beyond me.

    FIFA are a disgrace and the WC in Qatar the poster boy for it.

  • gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #23

  • gftChrisG gftChris

    And this just in, South Africa made a $10m definitely-not-a-bribe-but-just-to-say-thanks-ahead-of-time payment to FIFA, to host the world cup in 2010, which in a completely unrelated turn of events was redistributed to the association of the head of the central america association, who then in an unforeseeable turn of events managed to convince all the members in his jurisdiction to vote for south africa.

    Seems legit.

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #24

    @gftchris said:

    And this just in, South Africa made a $10m definitely-not-a-bribe-but-just-to-say-thanks-ahead-of-time payment to FIFA, to host the world cup in 2010, which in a completely unrelated turn of events was redistributed to the association of the head of the central america association, who then in an unforeseeable turn of events managed to convince all the members in his jurisdiction to vote for south africa.

    Seems legit.

    You say that money was paid to FIFA....but what I understand is that the payments in question went directly to the Administrators to the tune of millions of dollars.

    gftChrisG 1 Reply
  • gftChrisG gftChris

    I know it probably doesn't get so much traction over there, but the world of soccer is currently thanking the FBI very, very much for having the balls to do what everyone else should have done a long time ago.

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #25

    @gftchris said:

    I know it probably doesn't get so much traction over there, but the world of soccer is currently thanking the FBI very, very much for having the balls to do what everyone else should have done a long time ago.

    The World of soccer may be giving thanks....but not the soccer world. If they did then Blatter would be aufed.

    But....I hear that he may not be out of the woods yet in terms of indictment.

    Though this very much has a Jimmy Haslam like ring to it, no? The underlings fall on their swords, the top guy gets to stay.

  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @gftchris said:

    And this just in, South Africa made a $10m definitely-not-a-bribe-but-just-to-say-thanks-ahead-of-time payment to FIFA, to host the world cup in 2010, which in a completely unrelated turn of events was redistributed to the association of the head of the central america association, who then in an unforeseeable turn of events managed to convince all the members in his jurisdiction to vote for south africa.

    Seems legit.

    You say that money was paid to FIFA....but what I understand is that the payments in question went directly to the Administrators to the tune of millions of dollars.

    gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #26

    @the-gipper said:

    You say that money was paid to FIFA....but what I understand is that the payments in question went directly to the Administrators to the tune of millions of dollars.

    The money was withheld from a payment by FIFA to the SA FA. That money was then re-distributed, at the request of the SA FA to Jack Warner and concacaf.

  • DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan wrote on
    #27

    Criminal.

    "You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970.
  • DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan

    Criminal.

    gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #28

    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    Criminal.

    That's what the FBI is trying to show.

  • gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #29

    Sepp Blatter, president for the last ~20 years and main 'Jimmy Haslam clone' at FIFA is resigning. I know most of you don't know how amazing this news is, but everybody I know is so, so happy with this.

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  • gftChrisG gftChris

    Sepp Blatter, president for the last ~20 years and main 'Jimmy Haslam clone' at FIFA is resigning. I know most of you don't know how amazing this news is, but everybody I know is so, so happy with this.

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #30

    @gftchris said:

    Sepp Blatter, president for the last ~20 years and main 'Jimmy Haslam clone' at FIFA is resigning. I know most of you don't know how amazing this news is, but everybody I know is so, so happy with this.

    So, you say Blatter is stepping down?

    Who is going to replace him? Ali Haji Sheikh? (Ask Woody why that would make him happy).

  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @gftchris said:

    Sepp Blatter, president for the last ~20 years and main 'Jimmy Haslam clone' at FIFA is resigning. I know most of you don't know how amazing this news is, but everybody I know is so, so happy with this.

    So, you say Blatter is stepping down?

    Who is going to replace him? Ali Haji Sheikh? (Ask Woody why that would make him happy).

    gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #31

    @the-gipper said:

    So, you say Blatter is stepping down?

    Who is going to replace him? Ali Haji Sheikh? (Ask Woody why that would make him happy).

    There will be an election later this year to determine his successor. Presumably it'll go to the guy that pulled out last minute this time, Prince Ali ababwa bin al-hussein.

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