FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Sepp Blatter Quits

[HajdukSplit]

UEFA announced that all of it's member countries will be voting for Blatter's opponent.

I doubt Russia will

The only FAs to publicly announce their vote are England, Wales, Ireland, Sweden, Iceland, Romania and a few others I can't think of right now

 

[jekoh]

To save face, to seperate themselves from these crooks. Everyone here has had a hand in this including UEFA but for them to seperate thenselves maybe Platini looks at this as an opportunity to be looked as the next in line to run the whole operation of soccer in the world

In other words, absolutely nothing is achieved.

 

[chasespace]

Here's an interesting idea:

Say UEFA does split from FIFA over this and their next Euro event after this cycle they open to ALL nations who break from FIFA as well. Would that be considered a World Cup or an expanded Euro event?

Euro events are more competitive from the bottom up so a Euro with USA, Mexico, Australia, a few South American nations, and some of the stronger African ones(if they break as well) would be dynamite.

 

[jekoh]

Here's an interesting idea:

Say UEFA does split from FIFA over this and their next Euro event after this cycle they open to ALL nations who break from FIFA as well. Would that be considered a World Cup or an expanded Euro event?

Euro events are more competitive from the bottom up so a Euro with USA, Mexico, Australia, a few South American nations, and some of the stronger African ones(if they break as well) would be dynamite.

That's not very interesting at all.

You'd simply be recreating the same beast under a different name.

 

[BMann]

I dislike US/England arrogant opinion that they should be immediately handed the next 2 World Cups.
But damn, I thought this day would never come for FIFA!

There is nothing arrogant about it. The technical committee acknowledged our bid was excellent and unlike previous World Cups a fortune would not have to be spent on behalf of FIFA leaving the hosts out of pocket.

Instead of spending billions on this this sort of money could be better directed in Russia at pressing issues and grass roots sports like the former sports palaces which nurtured generations of stars from chess to artistic gymnastics and bringing back the diaspora of coaching talent.

 

[BMann]

Hopefully, in addition to nailing FIFA, they slam Traffic and something changes with 3rd party ownership. There's been talks of banning it, but it really needs to be highlighted how wrong this **** is.

Traffic Sports Marketing owns the rights to hundreds of South American (mostly Brazilian and Argentine) players.

For every Neymar, who got to Barca and got paid, there's 100 of others who got shopped around the world and had their careers ruined over transfer money.

Instead of the clubs getting the bulk of the transfer monies these groups and superagents like Simonian take the money. Clubs like River Plate should be wealthy enough but most of the money ends up with shareholders and these agents.

It needs to be stopped along with the selling of young players long before they have matured enough to play abroad in most cases.

 

[Evilo]

There is nothing arrogant about it. The technical committee acknowledged our bid was excellent and unlike previous World Cups a fortune would not have to be spent on behalf of FIFA leaving the hosts out of pocket.

Weirdly enough, we keep on hearing the WC should be given to England, the US or Australia.

See a trend here?

 

[BMann]

Credit card company Visa are now threatening to pull out of their sponsorship deal with FIFA, unless it acts quickly to clean it's act. Adidas, Coca-Cola, HundaiMotor, McDonalds and Budweiser have also expressed their concern over FIFA's culture.

All that needs to happen is for these companies to pull the plug or threaten to do so and Blatter is done for. Add the lawsuits in lieu of stripping Russia and Qatar of World Cups and FIFA is in real trouble financially.

 

[BMann]

Weirdly enough, we keep on hearing the WC should be given to England, the US or Australia.

See a trend here?

Seems fair enough to me. And a centenary World Cup in Argentina/Uruguay in 2030.

 

[Xelebes]

Weirdly enough, we keep on hearing the WC should be given to England, the US or Australia.

See a trend here?

I haven't seen much of that, personally. I do not want it in either of those three countries.

 

[Evilo]

I haven't seen much of that, personally. I do not want it in either of those three countries.

It's everywhere in the papers, and everywhere in this thread.

 

[Evilo]

Seems fair enough to me. And a centenary World Cup in Argentina/Uruguay in 2030.

Nope it's not fair. It's just england papers being self-centered, as usual.

 

[Ceremony]

Weirdly enough, we keep on hearing the WC should be given to England, the US or Australia.

See a trend here?

Which of the other bids would you rather see chosen?

 

[jekoh]

Which of the other bids would you rather see chosen?

Spain or South Korea are certainly better bids than Australia.

 

[Evilo]

Which of the other bids would you rather see chosen?

Why would you only select among the "bids" (and did the US, Australia and England all bid for 2022? No)?

Plenty of countries are capable of hosting a WC.

 

[Ceremony]

Spain or South Korea are certainly better bids than Australia.

South Korea are even more recent than the US and have an Olympics coming up (the Brazil/Russia situations in that regard are also ridiculous).

Why would you only select among the "bids" (and did the US, Australia and England all bid for 2022? No)?

Because the countries who bid are willing to host the tournament on account of them bidding to host the tournament.

And I meant in general for both 2018/2022.

 

[Jeffrey]

I like the idea of the Netherland/Belgium joint bid.
Another bid I would like is Japan or New Zealand.

 

[Evilo]

South Korea are even more recent than the US and have an Olympics coming up (the Brazil/Russia situations in that regard are also ridiculous).



Because the countries who bid are willing to host the tournament on account of them bidding to host the tournament.

And I meant in general for both 2018/2022.

Well, what's the reason for Spain? Haven't hosted since 82.

And why would you strip a football nation like Russia of a WC?

 

[East Coast Bias]

Weirdly enough, we keep on hearing the WC should be given to England, the US or Australia.

See a trend here?

Do you think this investigation is political, has to do with the US having sour grapes over losing the 2022 bid to Qatar, and is an attempt to bring the WC to the US?

Serious question.

 

[Jussi]

I doubt Russia will

The only FAs to publicly announce their vote are England, Wales, Ireland, Sweden, Iceland, Romania and a few others I can't think of right now

Finland as well.

 

[jekoh]

South Korea are even more recent than the US and have an Olympics coming up (the Brazil/Russia situations in that regard are also ridiculous).

That's still a much better bid than Australia.

 

[chasespace]

Plenty of countries are capable of hosting a WC.

Very few countries could host a World Cup on short notice. The amount of infrastructure required is insane. It took Brazil how many years to get ready for the event and they already had more than enough soccer stadiums ready to go? The amount of things FIFA requires to host a World Cup is detrimental to the smaller nations who want to host them. How many former World Cup stadiums are being used effectively?

 

[Ceremony]

Well, what's the reason for Spain? Haven't hosted since 82.

And why would you strip a football nation like Russia of a WC?

I am asking entirely in hypotheticals since it seems both the 18/22 bids are being questioned. You were complaining about people mentioning England/USA/Australia as the alternatives, so who would you rather?

Finland as well.

Scotland (the same Scotland who're playing Qatar in a friendly next month after some people in the SFA got pally with their FA) are too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32904408

 

[Evilo]

Do you think this investigation is political, has to do with the US having sour grapes over losing the 2022 bid to Qatar, and is an attempt to bring the WC to the US?

Serious question.

People here are mixing two separate investigations.
One is about WC attributions and Switzerland is conducting it.

The FBI, OTOH, is investigating on bribaries, which more or less focuses on american problems.

When Jussi makes a link between Putin, the US and the russian WC, it's just not true. SWITZERLAND is investigating the russian bid.

And as I said before, Russia without a single doubt paid to get their WC. Just like every host before them. So I don't see why they shouldn't get their WC.

 

[Evilo]

Very few countries could host a World Cup on short notice. The amount of infrastructure required is insane. It took Brazil how many years to get ready for the event and they already had more than enough soccer stadiums ready to go? The amount of things FIFA requires to host a World Cup is detrimental to the smaller nations who want to host them. How many former World Cup stadiums are being used effectively?

Off the top of my head :
Germany, France, England, Spain, Italy, Poland/Ukraine, China, Japan, Korea, etc, etc...