FIFA Rotten To The Core

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Mr. Voldemort

No More Mr Nice Guy

It needed shutting down after the Blatter and Platini fiasco but they allowed it to trundle on and now this. The sooner it is replaced the better. The name is synonymous with bribery and corruption.
 

It needed shutting down after the Blatter and Platini fiasco but they allowed it to trundle on and now this. The sooner it is replaced the better. The name is synonymous with bribery and corruption.

I wish the Swiss would take their responsibilities seriously having provided a home for FIFA and UEFA.....and arrest the lot on corruption charges.

And enact a law allowing them to recover all the illgotten gains these lot have accumulated.
 

It needed shutting down after the Blatter and Platini fiasco but they allowed it to trundle on and now this. The sooner it is replaced the better. The name is synonymous with bribery and corruption.

Absolutely laughable. Particularly as Infantino was elected as the post-corruption candidate.
 
Currently reading this, only half way through but truly shocking stuff. Published a few years ago but obviously still very current.

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I wish the Swiss would take their responsibilities seriously having provided a home for FIFA and UEFA.....and arrest the lot on corruption charges.

And enact a law allowing them to recover all the illgotten gains these lot have accumulated.
This is a country that made a killing on war profiteering and Nazi gold, corruption isn't exactly new to them.
 
Absolutely laughable. Particularly as Infantino was elected as the post-corruption candidate.

Sadly the answer could be 'you should have seen the other guys'

Both FIFA and UEFA now have access to wealth beyond most moderately sized countries, and it is controlled by a self perpetuating group of people - it might work if FIFA and/or UEFA were run by a benevolent dictatorship, but all the evidence coming out suggests there is no benevolence, just a lot of self interest.

Really is time that system was smashed. Just a question as how to do that and how to put an alternative structure in its place.
 
Never forget when that comedian made such an impressive mockery of Blatter in a press conference throwing fake money at him.

Watching the notes flutter in the air, surrounding an astonished and greedy old man was/is priceless.
 


Quite staggering that 75% of the 22 people on FIFA Exco who voted for Qatar to be next World Cup venue have been convicted (or died before trial) of various corruption offences, and charges could still be made against a few of the other 25% not yet convicted.

Who should deal with the problem is less clear given FIFA has not - Switzerland as that is the country where FIFA is located (but their laws on corruption in sport are weak, maybe why FIFA, UEFA, IOC are there) or who else ?

Broadening the thread for purely FIFA related to other 'Football Uncovered' finance/dodgy owners/corruption type stories :



5th of an 8 episode Series one on 'Football Uncovered' this time on Villa. Could be quite illuminating.
 
BBC :

Fifa, football's world governing body, say Blatter's previous administration cost them 500m Swiss francs (£420m) to renovate "a building that the organisation doesn't own", while also "locking itself into a long-term rental agreement on unfavourable terms".

Guardian

The documents allege the project was “deliberately mismanaged”, and point to the decision to put 140 million Swiss francs (more than £117m) into a building Fifa did not own, to lock Fifa into a rental agreement with the building’s owner – insurance firm Swiss Life – until at least 2045 costing it a further 360m Swiss francs, and the failure to consider other any other suitable properties.

The documents state that the former management of Fifa “repeatedly misled different Fifa bodies as to the cost and viability of the project”, including the existence of alternative sites.
 
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