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England just playing sour grapes as usual, crying as if they cab even afford the WC. and f*ck you all joining them feeling sad as if your life would be better.certain man are more clued up about corruption in Fifa that doesnt affect them in any way than their far more corrupt govt.

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May 31 - Chuck Blazer, the prominent FIFA official who blew the whistle on the biggest bribery scandal in its history, was relieved of his duties as general secretary of the CONCACAF Confederation tonight as the crisis at the heart of the world governing body snared its most unexpected of victims, reports said.

Blazer was apparently sacked by the acting president of CONCACAF, Lisle Austin, who took over from Jack Warner, suspended by FIFA on Sunday (May 29) for his alleged role in the bribes-for-votes scandal.

"I cannot comment on this," said Blazer as insideworldfootball tried to contact him at his room in a downtown Zurich hotel.

"We are dealing with the matter as we speak.

"It's not a conversation I can have right now."

Austin, a Warner ally, was catapulted into the Presidency on a temporary basis though it is not clear whether he was acting on the specifiic instructions of Warner who has remained in Zurich despite being forced to miss tomorrow's FIFA election.

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May 31 - Secret negotiations are taking place for Sepp Blatter to step down as President of FIFA in 2013 rather than serve the full four-year term he would be due if he is elected here tomorrow, it has been claimed.

The talks are being led by UEFA, it is reported, which would put their President Michel Platini in the pole position to succeed Blatter if he decides to stand aside.

The former French international sees it as a compromise to postpoining the election, which the Football Associations in England and Scotland are calling for but which he has already told insideworldfootball that he does not back.

The idea of shortening Blatter's terms is supported by Norway, who had said earlier in the election campaign that they would support him over Mohamed Bin Hammam, his only rival until he withdrew on Sunday (May 29) just hours before he was provisionally suspended by FIFA's Ethics Committee amid allegations he had tried to bribe voters in the Caribbean.

"We are waiting to see what the situation is leading up to the election," Yngve Hallén, the President of the Norwegian FA told the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.

"The Scandinavian countries speak with a common voice in the UEFA and we're going to listen to any proposals which might be put forward."

Blatter addressed FIFA's 208 member federations when opening the 61st Congress in the Hallenstadion here, a curious affair which featured jugglers, folk dancers and the singer Grace Jones (pictured) - which was quite out of keeping with the atmosphere that has enveloped this gathering of the powerbrokers of world football.

"I thought we were living in a world of fair play, respect and discipline but I must unfortunately say this is no longer the case because our pyramid, the famous FIFA pyramid, is suddenly unsure on its basis and there is danger," he warned.

"Tomorrow, dear friends, when I open the Congress agenda, I will speak of the danger lurking and I will tell you how we can fight this threat of danger, how our sport can play its role in bringing people together in the future.

"Tonight we want to meet in a festive atmosphere, but to keep the fascination of our sport we must respect it, it's up to all of us.

"It's our game, all of us have a duty to protect this sport and this is what we want to do.

"I am certain we will achieve this."

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lol

Grondona, Argentine FA:

"Yes, I voted for Qatar, because a vote for the US would be like a vote for England, and that is not possible."

"I do not believe a Jew can ever be a referee at this level. It's hard work and Jews don't like hard work."

"If you give back the Falkland Islands, which belong to us, you will get my vote."
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Other countries hate England I think we need to start to accept that wont win no world cup bid eurovision etc until the image of the country changes still surprised we got the Olympics think it is because IOC hate the French keep on parring them.

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Grondona, Argentine FA:

"Yes, I voted for Qatar, because a vote for the US would be like a vote for England, and that is not possible."

"I do not believe a Jew can ever be a referee at this level. It's hard work and Jews don't like hard work."

"If you give back the Falkland Islands, which belong to us, you will get my vote."

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

FIFA is a nuthouse

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13845203.stm

Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has resigned, world football's governing body has confirmed.

"As a consequence of Mr Warner's resignation, all ethics committee procedures against him have been closed and the presumption of innocence is maintained," said a Fifa statement.

Warner was suspended pending an investigation into bribery allegations.

He and fellow Fifa member Mohamed Bin Hammam are alleged to have paid bribes of ÂŁ600,000 to Caribbean associations.

It had been alledged by Chuck Blazer - the general secretary of the CONCACAF federation of which Warner had been president - that violations of Fifa's code of ethics occurred during a meeting organised by Bin Hammam and Warner in May.

Blazer's allegations against the 68-year-old - who had been the longest-serving member of Fifa's executive committee - were preceded by claims made in parliament by the former head of England's failed 2018 World Cup bid, Lord Triesman, about irregularities in the bidding process for the 2018 World Cup in December.

Triesman, who was also former chairman of the Football Association (FA), accused Warner and three other Fifa Executive Committee members of improper conduct during England's 2018 World Cup bid.

A Fifa statement continued: "Fifa regrets the turn of events that have led to Mr Warner's decision.

"His resignation has been accepted by world football's governing body, and his contribution to international football and to Caribbean football in particular and the CONCACAF confederation are appreciated and acknowledged.

from a journo on Twitter -

Jack Warner was being investigated for alleged collusion in bribery before FIFA election. He resigns, "ethics" investigation is closed.

What a joke FIFA are.

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Time for a deserved bump with new information coming out.

]FIFA chiefs had knowledge that senior officials including former president Joao Havelange had been paid bribes by the organisation's former marketing company ISL, a court document published on Wednesday has revealed.[/size]

The world governing body also agreed to pay 2.5million Swiss francs (ÂŁ1.64m) in compensation - but only on the condition that criminal proceedings against Havelange and executive committee member Ricardo Teixeira were dropped.

Named: Former FIFA president Joao Havelange allegedly received bribes

The publication of the report by the prosecutor's office of the Swiss canton of Zug suggests that current FIFA president Sepp Blatter would have been aware of at least one bribe paid to Havelange.

FIFA have published the report on their website, but it leaves big question marks about why no action was ever taken against Havelange or Teixeira, and why the organisation went to such lengths to protect the two senior figures.

The report states: 'The finding that FIFA had knowledge of the bribery payments to persons within its organs is not questioned.

'This is firstly because various members of the executive committee had received money, and furthermore, among other things, it was confirmed by the former chief financial officer of FIFA as a witness that a certain payment made to Joao Havelange... amounting to CHF1m was mistakenly directly transferred to a FIFA account; not only the CFO had knowledge of this, but also, among others, P1 would also have known about it.'

Ricardo Teixeira was an executive committee member at FIFA

The person referred to in the report as P1 is not identified, but it also states that P1 and Havelange had signed the marketing agreement with ISL on behalf of FIFA in 1997.

It is known that the agreement was signed by Havelange, who was president, and Blatter who was then general secretary.

The documents state Havelange was paid at least CHF1.5m (ÂŁ1m), Teixeira at least CHF12.74m (ÂŁ8.37m) and the pair may have received as much as CHF21.9m (ÂŁ14.4m).

The two men have dominated Brazilian football between them for the last 50 years.

Not involved: Current president Sepp Blatter had no part

Teixeira at one time was Havelange's son-in-law and only stepped down earlier this year from FIFA's executive committee and as head of Brazil's 2014 World Cup organising committee after it became apparent the report would be published.

Teixeira and Havelange also tried to block the publication by going to the Swiss federal court but failed to do so.

Both men have paid compensation, Teixeira of CHF2.5m and Havelange of CHF0.5m, and FIFA who were being investigated for 'disloyal management' also agreed to pay CHF2.5m.

The report states: 'FIFA declared that it agreed to the conditions; however, in its letter dated January 8, 2010, it made its consent conditional upon the discontinuance of the proceedings against Ricardo Terra Teixeira and Joao Havelange.'

The report does confirm that Blatter was not among those on the list of people who were paid bribes by ISL.

A FIFA statement said: 'This decision by the Federal Court is in line with what FIFA and the FIFA president have been advocating since 2011, when world football's governing body announced its commitment to the publication of the ISL non-prosecution order.

'This announcement was part of a process of reforms launched at the FIFA Congress in June 2011, the road map for which was approved by the FIFA executive committee on 21 October 2011.

'The decision of the Swiss Federal Court also confirms that only two foreign officials will be named as part of the process and that, as previously communicated by the Prosecutor of Zug in June 2010, the FIFA president is not involved in the case ('no Swiss person involved').

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz20LjCiZbT

Some people to follow on Twitter for more on this story

@AAndrewJennings - He did do the doc before the World Cup was announced, someone whom isn't liked by certain Fifa members.

@changeFIFA

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JoĂŁo Havelange, the former president of football's world governing body,Fifa, and a senior executive committee member, Ricardo Teixeira, were paid huge bribes by the company to which Fifa awarded the 2002 and 2006 World Cup TV rights, according to a Swiss prosecutor.

In a legal document finally published after lengthy court proceedings in Switzerland, Fifa, under the presidency of Sepp Blatter, Havelange's successor, was found to have known about the bribes, yet argued it did not need to have the money repaid. Prosecutions were mounted for alleged embezzlement against Havelange and Teixeira, and "disloyal management" — a breach of its duties – against Fifa, but they were stopped on May 11 2010, after Havelange and Texeira repaid a small proportion of the 41m Swiss francs (£27m).

The court order documenting the settlement, published by the prosecutor in the Swiss canton of Zug, explains why the prosecution was settled, while the publication of its investigation findings deliver a devastating indictment of Fifa, under both Havelange and Blatter.

Havelange was the Brazilian president of Fifa from 1974 until 1998, when he was succeeded by Blatter, the current president, who had been his loyal general-secretary. Teixeira, Havelange's son-in-law until his divorce, was a long-serving Fifa executive committee member, and president of Brazil's football federation, until he stepped down on the grounds of ill-health earlier this year.

Both men were found to have received those massive payments, as "commissions", stated explicitly to be bribes, by the marketing company International Sports Media and Marketing, known as ISL. Commercial bribery was not a crime in Switzerland at the time. Havelange, then the president of Fifa, in December 1997 granted ISL Fifa's exclusive marketing rights, and in May 1998 sold ISL exclusive TV and radio rights to the 2002 and 2006 World Cups. ISL paid Fifa 200m Swiss francs (£131m) for the marketing rights and $1.4bn (£906m) for the TV rights – but subsequently ISL went bust and its liquidators examined all payments made by the company.

The document published by the Zug prosecutor reveals that Havelange and Teixeira were paid the 41m Swiss francs (ÂŁ27m) by ISL over a period of eight years, beginning as far back as August 1992, until the most recent payment, of 868,000 Swiss francs (ÂŁ571,000) in May 2000. The Swiss prosecutors also found that via a company established in the secretive tax haven of Liechtenstein, ISL made 37m Swiss francs (ÂŁ24m) payments as "commissions" or "donations" to unnamed "individuals and decision makers of global sports".

The court order explaining why the prosecutions were halted, after Havelange and Texeira repaid 500,000 (ÂŁ329,000) and 2.5m Swiss francs (ÂŁ1.6m) respectively, exposes a culture of rife bribe-taking which it finds Fifa, under Blatter, knew about and yet left unpunished and kept secret.

"The finding that Fifa had knowledge of the bribery payments to persons within its organs is not questioned," the document states. "This is firstly because various members of the executive committee had received money, and furthermore … a [1m Swiss francs] payment made to João Havelange was mistakenly directly transferred to a Fifa account."

The court document states that Fifa's (unnamed) chief financial officer knew the Havelange bribe of 1m Swiss francs (£658,000) had mistakenly arrived in a Fifa account, and also that another Fifa official knew – the identity of this Fifa official is not disclosed. However the prosecutor recounts over several pages the intensive efforts made by a lawyer acting on behalf of Fifa while Blatter was president, to have the prosecutions stopped. The lawyer argued to the court that Fifa did not have to ask for the bribes "pocketed" by Havelange and Teixeira, for their "personal enrichment" to be repaid.

The case was settled and the prosecutions stopped following negotiations with a lawyer who stated that he represented Fifa itself, on March 17, 2004, while Blatter was the president of Fifa. The lawyer, unnamed, appeared to state it was a Fifa policy not to be named in "unjustified speculation" concerning ISL and said: "Fifa intercedes to help bring about settlements where foreign football functionaries have received commission."

The investigation following ISL's collapse cited the chairman of the company explaining that bribes had been rife and common-place since the 1970s, "whereby well-known individuals in sports were favoured".

Between 1989 and 1998, the prosecutor's document states, just one ISL company paid "commission" to such insiders of 123m Swiss francs (ÂŁ81m). That only partially included the payments to Havelange and Teixeira, and the identities of those who received other huge sums is not revealed.

The prosecutor believed Havelange and Teixeira were guilty of criminal breaches of their duties to serve Fifa as senior executives. However the prosecutor agreed, after extended efforts by Fifa to have the prosecution stopped, that the payments of 500,000 Swiss francs (ÂŁ329,000) and 2.5m Swiss francs (ÂŁ1.6m) respectively were reasonable to settle the action. This was partly because the bribes paid before 1995 were time-barred (outside the statute of limitations), and the prosecutor also took into account Havelange's advanced age.

Fifa presented the document's publication as part of its process of reform, saying it was "pleased" it had now been made public.

http://www.guardian....port?CMP=twt_gu

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World Cup inquiry clears Qatar but criticises English FA
 

The English Football Association has been accused of damaging the image of Fifa and flouting bidding rules in its attempt to stage the 2018 World Cup.

A Fifa report says the FA behaved improperly when trying to win the backing of a key voter.

However, Qatar have been cleared of any wrongdoing during their successful bid to stage the 2022 World Cup, thus ending talks of a possible re-vote.

The Gulf state had faced a number of corruption allegations.

The news that the FA has come in for criticism is a surprise given that it has repeatedly called for transparency in the voting process and accused Fifa of not doing enough to stamp out corruption.

 

The FA is accused of trying to "curry favour" with former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, who quit his role in 2011 amid bribery allegations.

Individuals involved in England's bid could now face action following the conclusion of the two-year inquiry.

Fifa's report, which also looks at the conduct of other bidding nations for both the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, makes a number of damaging points about the conduct of England bid officials.

In particular, it says England's bid team tried to win the support of Warner, who is from Trinidad & Tobago, by:

  • Trying to help "a person of interest to him" find a part time job in the United Kingdom
  • Letting the Trinidad and Tobago Under-20 squad hold a training camp in the UK in the summer of 2009
  • Sponsoring a gala dinner for the Caribbean Football Union, at a cost of $55,000, around ÂŁ35,000

In his 42-page report, Hans Joachim Eckert, Fifa's independent ethics adjudicator, writes that England's bid team "showed a willingness, time and again" to meet Warner's expectations.

By doing so, it damaged "the image of Fifa and the bidding process".

The inquiry looked at the conduct of all nine bidding teams who were trying to win the right to stage either the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

It was initiated after a number of corruption allegations were made once voting had taken place in 2010.

 

2018 World Cup voting   Round 1 Round 2

Russia - 9 - 13 (majority)

Spain/Portugal - 7 - 7

Netherlands/Belgium - 4 - 2

England - 2

 

Russia won the right to host the 2018 World Cup, beating off England as well as joint bids by the Netherlands/Belgium and Spain/Portugal.

England won just two votes after expressing high hopes of winning.

To much surprise, Qatar were awarded the 2022 tournament, edging out Australia, Japan, South Korea and the United States.

Qatar were subsequently accused of paying Fifa officials ÂŁ3m to secure backing for its bid but have now been cleared of wrongdoing.

As for Russia, they have also been cleared, although the report noted its bid team made "only a limited amount of documents available for review".

 

2022 World Cup voting   R1 R2 R3 R4

Qatar - 11 - 10 - 11 - 14 (majority)

USA - 3 - 5 - 6 - 8

S Korea

4 - 5 - 5 - -

Japan

3 - 2 - - - -

Australia

1 - - - - - -

 

 

According to the report, the Russian team hired computers that were subsequently destroyed, denying the inquiry access to email accounts.

However, the report effectively confirms Qatar and Russia as 2022 and 2018 hosts, stating any rule breaches by the bidding countries were "of very limited scope".

 

The FA have yet to react to the report's findings.

Neither has former FA chairman Lord Triesman, who is also criticised directly in the report.

While the majority of England's bid team is praised for its co-operation with the inquiry, which was led by American lawyer Michael Garcia, Lord Triesman is said to have twice refused to provide assistance.

 

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So i was right all along

 

England on that "we're not bribing you but this is a brown envelope and maybe you might take it and maybe you might vote for us, wink wink and if you dont we will snitch" vibe

 

while Qatar and Russia come through like "How much do you want to be paid for you to vote for us, ok deal" 

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while Qatar and Russia come through like "How much do you want to be paid for you to vote for us, ok deal" 

 

 

then once the deed is done, get rid of all the evidence or distance yourself from it. basics.

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