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Jack Warner and the 2022 world cup

The Telegraph' take on Platini' role...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...2-France-embroiled-in-corruption-scandal.html

Michel Platini, one of the most powerful men in world football, was on Monday night under pressure to explain a secret meeting with the man at the centre of the Qatar World Cup scandal.
The Telegraph has unearthed evidence that Mr Platini, a former leading French international and the president of Uefa, European football’s governing body, had a private discussion with Mohamed Bin Hammam, the controversial Qatari who paid millions of pounds to football officials around the world.
The emergence of the meeting means that France has become the first European nation to be drawn into the World Cup bribery scandal, which has so far been limited to African and Caribbean countries.
It is understood that the meeting took place shortly before Fifa awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, and that Mr Bin Hammam personally lobbied Mr Platini to support the Emirate’s bid.

... Documents leaked to The Telegraph show that Mr Platini met Mr Bin Hammam for breakfast shortly before the former footballer met Nicolas Sarkozy, at the time the French president, the son of the emir of Qatar and the country’s prime minister for lunch at the Elysée Palace in November 2010, a month before the World Cup vote.
The following year, the state-owned Qatar Sports Investments bought Paris Saint-Germain, Mr Sarkozy’s favourite team. Mr Platini has always denied that Mr Sarkozy asked him to vote for Qatar, but in an interview he said: “I was invited to a dinner with Mr Sarkozy where there was the prime minister of Qatar. They never asked me during the dinner to vote. It was a clear thing about 'support’. They knew I would be independent.”
Mr Platini’s son Laurent became the chief executive of Burrda, a Qatar owned sports company. He has always said that his son’s role was unconnected to his vote.
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Loving this ****.. just love it when ****ers get shown up for the qunts they are.. so refreshing that there are still decent journalists out there reporting proper **** too.
 
Has anyone asked Platini why he voted for Qatar? That should be good for a laugh. I'd like to see Dennis Pennis/Chris Morris interview every member who voted Qatar.
 
At the time, France Football said Platini was told by Sarkozy to vote for Qatar because it was in France's geopolitical interests. A week later Qatar bought Sarkozy's favourite team, PSG.

Today Platini is wriggling around saying he was never told but it was implied he should because he turned up to a meeting with Sarkozy and the Qatar guys were there.
 
Re: blatter plays the racist card...c@#t

Crab.C.Nesbitt said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27762435

What a scumbag.
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And to follow up :-

Sepp Blatter launches angry tirade against the ‘racist’ British media

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/09/sepp-blatter-fifa-qatar

Sepp Blatter has launched an astonishing broadside at the “racist” British media over what the Fifa president claims are dark forces threatening to destroy world football’s embattled governing body.

Blatter went on the offensive three days before the World Cup starts following a troubled buildup and with Fifa under pressure from the media, politicians and sponsors over new bribery allegations.

“We have seen what the British press has published,” he told the Asian Football Confederation’s pre-World Cup gathering in São Paulo. “I don’t know what the reasoning is behind this but we must maintain unity.”

In a routine familiar to those who observed his presidential campaigns, the 78-year-old toured meetings of the African and Asian football confederations to denounce the “racism” of the western media and shore up support for his bid for a fifth term as president.

He claimed that Fifa’s detractors wanted “to destroy, not the game, but they want to destroy the institution” and referred to the scandal as “Qatar-gate”.

Story continues at above link.

This man is pure scum

More here :-

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/09/sepp-blatter-storm-fifa-qatar
 
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You have to admire the bare faced cheek of the man. He's corrupt to the core. We know it, he knows it, he knows we know it but he doesn't give a ****. He would have made a great politician.
 
Rorschach said:
You have to admire the bare faced cheek of the man. He's corrupt to the core. We know it, he knows it, he knows we know it but he doesn't give a ****. He would have made a great politician.
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Blatter has more power than any politician could ever dare dream to have.

I see he has used the last refuge of an absolute scoundrel - the race card.
 
About bloody time ... Maybe this will increase the pressure.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/busi...ar-world-cup-bid/story-fnda1bsz-1226949359611

MAJOR sponsors Adidas, Sony and Visa have demanded that FIFA carry out a thorough investigation of corruption allegations over Qatar's 2022 World Cup-bid, stepping up pressure on football's governing body.

The corporate titans urged football's rulers to probe claims that former Qatari football boss Mohamed bin Hammam paid millions of dollars in bribes to secure support for a deeply controversial victory in a 2010 FIFA vote.

The three companies account for hundreds of millions of dollars of sponsorship for FIFA. They are three of the six top level sponsors of the World Cup.

Adidas said in a statement that it was “confident that the matter is being dealt with as a priority”.

FIFA investigator Michael Garcia, a former US federal prosecutor, is to finish his inquiry into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup votes on Tuesday.

The company said it has had a “long-term and successful partnership with FIFA” that it looked forward to continuing. “Having said that, the negative tenor of the public debate around FIFA at the moment is neither good for football nor for FIFA and its partners,” Adidas said.

Sony was reported by The Sunday Times as saying that it wanted FIFA to hold an “appropriate” investigation into the Qatar allegations.

“As a FIFA partner, we expect these allegations to be investigated appropriately,” the Japanese electronics giant told the paper.

“We continue to expect FIFA to adhere to its principles of integrity, ethics and fair play across all aspects of its operations.” Visa was equally outspoken.

“Visa does not take part in the administration of sport,” said a statement released by the credit card giant.

“Our expectation remains that all of our partners maintain strong ethical standards and operate with transparency.” Qatar has strongly denied allegations reported by The Sunday Times newspaper that former Qatar football boss Mohamed Bin Hammam paid more than $US5 million ($A5.41 million) in bribes to win support ahead of the 2010 vote on the 2018 and 2022 hosts of the World Cup.

FIFA investigator Garcia has said he will conclude his inquiry by June 9, but is not expected to submit his final report until mid-July.

The tiny Gulf state prevailed over the US, Australia, Japan and South Korea, despite a FIFA technical report which warned the searing temperatures during June and July posed a health risk.
 
Superted said:
About bloody time ... Maybe this will increase the pressure.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/busi...ar-world-cup-bid/story-fnda1bsz-1226949359611

MAJOR sponsors Adidas, Sony and Visa have demanded that FIFA carry out a thorough investigation of corruption allegations over Qatar's 2022 World Cup-bid, stepping up pressure on football's governing body.

The corporate titans urged football's rulers to probe claims that former Qatari football boss Mohamed bin Hammam paid millions of dollars in bribes to secure support for a deeply controversial victory in a 2010 FIFA vote.

The three companies account for hundreds of millions of dollars of sponsorship for FIFA. They are three of the six top level sponsors of the World Cup.

Adidas said in a statement that it was “confident that the matter is being dealt with as a priority”.

FIFA investigator Michael Garcia, a former US federal prosecutor, is to finish his inquiry into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup votes on Tuesday.

The company said it has had a “long-term and successful partnership with FIFA” that it looked forward to continuing. “Having said that, the negative tenor of the public debate around FIFA at the moment is neither good for football nor for FIFA and its partners,” Adidas said.

Sony was reported by The Sunday Times as saying that it wanted FIFA to hold an “appropriate” investigation into the Qatar allegations.

“As a FIFA partner, we expect these allegations to be investigated appropriately,” the Japanese electronics giant told the paper.

“We continue to expect FIFA to adhere to its principles of integrity, ethics and fair play across all aspects of its operations.” Visa was equally outspoken.

“Visa does not take part in the administration of sport,” said a statement released by the credit card giant.

“Our expectation remains that all of our partners maintain strong ethical standards and operate with transparency.” Qatar has strongly denied allegations reported by The Sunday Times newspaper that former Qatar football boss Mohamed Bin Hammam paid more than $US5 million ($A5.41 million) in bribes to win support ahead of the 2010 vote on the 2018 and 2022 hosts of the World Cup.

FIFA investigator Garcia has said he will conclude his inquiry by June 9, but is not expected to submit his final report until mid-July.

The tiny Gulf state prevailed over the US, Australia, Japan and South Korea, despite a FIFA technical report which warned the searing temperatures during June and July posed a health risk.
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Wow, didn't expect that. Just hope they mean it and stick to it because money is the only thing that might encourage them.

Blatter is like a dictator who everyone knows is corrupt and selfish yet no one ever challenges him. It's hardly a secret that FIFA is one of the most corrupt orginisations you could ever come across but no one can ever do anything about it, there's to many loopholes and the FIFA committee, or whatever it is they're called, have to many friends in the sport governing bodies who are equally as corrupt.

If an investigation is carried out I hope to GHod that it isn't carried out internally yet again.
 
The big question that all the journalists seem to be missing is "why is FIFA even relevant?"

It is a massively corrupt organization, that is not in line with what most countries want, does not embrace positive change to the game, we don't really need anyone to tell us the rules any more.

Why don't the major football nations just decide FIFA is no longer relevant, and appoint a paid/audited 3rd party with transparency and a set of goals around the future of the game
 
Raziel said:
The big question that all the journalists seem to be missing is "why is FIFA even relevant?"

It is a massively corrupt organization, that is not in line with what most countries want, does not embrace positive change to the game, we don't really need anyone to tell us the rules any more.

Why don't the major football nations just decide FIFA is no longer relevant, and appoint a paid/audited 3rd party with transparency and a set of goals around the future of the game
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For the national teams the majority of their income comes from the World Cup, Euros and associated qualifiers. FIFA and UEFA have the right to those competitions and thus holds the key to the money. Of course new tournaments could be formed, but it would have to be a mass exodus from under FIFA's wings that would have to be well organized and planned to keep national organizations going. Those national organizations have strong ties with FIFA/UEFA because of the delegates etc. Organizing a large scale switch to a new organization is probably therefor almost impossible. On the other hand individual or small groups of nations even starting talks about forming a new organization would probably face exclusions and the financial problems that would entail.

I'm not sure, but as a part of player contracts/league membership are clauses that clubs must release players for official national team games. I'm guessing this is only official as in FIFA/UEFA organized. Jumping ship could open up a massive can of worms for the national teams over payment to players, insurance etc.

As 6061 said, they have a lot of power, way beyond just being the ideal 3rd party you describe. That power keeps them in charge and I doubt we'll see a change to that.
 
braineclipse said:
For the national teams the majority of their income comes from the World Cup, Euros and associated qualifiers. FIFA and UEFA have the right to those competitions and thus holds the key to the money. Of course new tournaments could be formed, but it would have to be a mass exodus from under FIFA's wings that would have to be well organized and planned to keep national organizations going. Those national organizations have strong ties with FIFA/UEFA because of the delegates etc. Organizing a large scale switch to a new organization is probably therefor almost impossible. On the other hand individual or small groups of nations even starting talks about forming a new organization would probably face exclusions and the financial problems that would entail.

I'm not sure, but as a part of player contracts/league membership are clauses that clubs must release players for official national team games. I'm guessing this is only official as in FIFA/UEFA organized. Jumping ship could open up a massive can of worms for the national teams over payment to players, insurance etc.

As 6061 said, they have a lot of power, way beyond just being the ideal 3rd party you describe. That power keeps them in charge and I doubt we'll see a change to that.
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The sponsors hold the key. if uefa splits away as it should til fifa is cleaned up, then most of the sponsors would surely follow.
 
Former Germany great Franz Beckenbauer has been banned from all football activities for 90 days for not cooperating with an investigation into Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bid.

FIFA says the 90-day provisional ban was requested by ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia.

Beckenbauer was a voting member of FIFA’s executive committee in December 2010 when it chose Qatar, and Russia as 2018 World Cup host.

He said last week that he rejected two attempts by Garcia to speak with him.

Beckenbauer won the World Cup as both a player and coach is an advisor to FIFA’s football committee and a global ambassador for German champion Bayern Munich.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/13/franz-beckenbauer-banned-fifa-qatar-world-cup
 
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