FIFA officials arrestedu, to be extradited to USA

[Don Wassall]

I don't like Blatter, but given the timing of this "coup attempt" and the fact US is apparently behind it (with the aim of taking the World Cup away from Russia), I'm OK with Blatter's reelection. The alternative "reformer" prince Ali would probably have been even worse. They did have to drop the motion of expelling Israel from FIFA, at least for now, which is a shame, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be back in a year or two.

Putin has been ambivalent towards Jews since he came to power and is not as subservient as the American regime (not only the Republicans). From one side he does keep prominent Jews in positions of power in Russia, as long as they don't interfere with his politics. On the other side, he did not hesitate to take them out when they tried to go openly against him. The various Jewish power-brokers Berezovsky, Gusinsky, Khodorkhovsky etc. were either expelled or imprisoned when they tried to openly confront him. Abramovich was de-facto expelled to England, albeit with all the money he looted from Russia which is outrageous. Geopolitically, he recently committed a shipment of some pretty powerful anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, just to upset the Israelis and US and make their negotiating position weaker. He also is taking out various "non-govermental organizations", many of which were subversive Jewish "human rights" fronts. He obviously is aware of the Jewish power-structure and won't go directly against them and often will compromise, but feels strong enough to go against them tactically. A bit like the old Joseph Stalin policy.

+1 very knowledgeable post

 

[Phall]

Originally Posted by Matra2
When FIFA were testing their voting machines to see if they worked they asked the delegates to answer [COLOR=#009900 !important]who won last year's World Cup? 5% of the delegates got it wrong.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...2014-world-cup


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Jack Warner, a former vice president of world soccer’s governing body, FIFA, defended himself against corruption charges on Sunday by citing an article from The Onion, apparently unaware that it was satire. Mr. Warner, 72, who was arrested last week in connection with a wide-ranging criminal investigation by the [COLOR=#009900 !important]United States[/COLOR] Justice Department, held up the faux news report, calling it evidence of an American conspiracy, in a video [COLOR=#009900 !important]statement[/COLOR] that was uploaded to the web and then removed later in the day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/wo...ense.html?_r=1

 

[Porthos]

Blatter just resigned just days after winning re-election:
http://www.theguardian.com/football...conference-amid-latest-corruption-claims-live

The mystery thickens, they obviously have some dirt on him.

 

[Matra2]

Phall - Jack Warner has provided entertainment for many years now!

Israel's vote for Blatter doesn't look so good now that he's gone. Maybe the next crooks who run FIFA will remember Israel's loyalty. Even former Blatter loyalists in South America, most notably Argentina, voted against him.

The Third Worldisation of football has annoyed me since around Italia 1990. I'd like UEFA to split from Africanised Asianised FIFA and start up a separate governing body that reflects Europe's importance within the sport. How ridiculous that American Samoa and tiny Caribbean (Bermuda!) and African nonentities can have an equal vote with Germany and Italy. If this were to happen then they should cut the number of World Cup qualifying teams from Africa and Asia in half and add more European and South American countries.:nod:

Actually, if I had it my way I'd toss out the World Cup and have a biannual all UEFA and CONMEBOL (South America) plus 2 from CONCACAF (North America, Caribbean) tournament with only the champions of Africa and Asia invited. But that's dreaming in HD.

I'd also like to see a full investigation into some 2002 World Cup matches involving South Korea

East Asians are the world champions in cheating. No one even comes close.

 

[Lew]

well RT made a mistake
but i see that in the article about ronaldo donating money to palestine, they said "reportedly", so they probably knew that it was not really reliable
only "alternative" sources reported this donation
and there are 2 versions: one in which he gave his golden boot, that sold for more than 1.5 million $, and another one where he just gave his soccer boots, that sold for 2400$:

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/88/s...no-ronaldo-donates-2400-euros-to-palestinian-

http://rt.com/sport/football/ronaldo-gaza-real-madrid-237/

typical arab rumor

I don't know why RT would report that. They probably have some agenda I'm not aware of . Either way I'm glad the Arabs in France learned the harsh truth about their beloved superstar soccer players

 

[Giles Daldanus]

So lets do the math here.

Blatters biggest competition is from Jordan, an ally of Israel.

Since the merger, FIFA Ballon d'Or has only been won by Messi and Ronaldo, both of which have spoken ill of Israel.

The white Spain and German teams have won the past 2 World Cups.

I don’t mind Sep Blatter, as he does not seem to be the PC type (at least when compared to his FIFA colleagues) and has some good ideas when it comes to preserving the integrity of international football – I like how the requirement regarding a minimum of 5 years spent on the territory of the relevant national association for footballers lacking ethnic or birth connections to a country before becoming eligible for its national team provides an adequate solution to the worst excesses of nationality transfers in football.

At least practices such as the ones mentioned in this article did not put a stain on the reputation of the beautiful game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_national_handball_team

However, it is of course mainly Eastern European and Asian teams that benefit as a result of this restrictiveness rather than the traditional powerhouses like Germany and England.

He also tried to implement a 6+5 rule when it came to club football, but predictably found himself at odds with the employment laws of the European Union.

I don’t necessarily agree with Russia’s foreign policy course, though I don’t believe that a country deserves to lose its hosting rights to a World Cup tournament (unless it engages in barbaric actions such as genocide), so Blatter has at least been consistent in trying to keep the realms of politics and sport separated.

Still, I am in agreement that there is plenty of evidence regarding Blatter’s indirect involvement in various corruption schemes and on occasions he unfairly singled out England for criticism, blaming them for most of the ills of modern football…I am not sure whether Diego Maradona and Louis Figo (some of the names mentioned as potential successors of Blatter) would be better in advancing the football interests of predominantly white nations, hopefully one of them will prove me wrong.