FIFA In Ruins After Police Raid!!!

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Check out this article on CBC... They have a funny picture of Gucci in it

FIFA's 'internal struggle' over Russia, Qatar World Cups

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eye opening. FIFA is a "non-profit" organization. Imagine having a dream job in football, and also making 20 to 30% more money than bankers and hedge fund managers. Where do I sign up?



http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fifa-p...104407348.html

FIFA Pays Staffers More Than Wall Street and Hedge Fund Traders

"And you thought hedge funds paid too much. Consider the people who run FIFA, the much-maligned, much-investigated governing body of world soccer.

FIFA, now subject to a sprawling U.S. corruption probe, pays its professional staff 34 percent more than hedge funds and 25 percent more than banks award their traders, according to salary benchmarking site Emolument.com. FIFA also paid its employees 37 percent more than the Union of European Football Associations, or UEFA, Emolument said.

The non-profit organization pays an average salary of $242,000, while hedge fund professionals make $180,000, it said. Banks pay their traders an average salary of $194,000, excluding bonuses, according to the report. The average non-profit employee makes $66,000 a year, London-based Emolument found.

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Check out this article on CBC... They have a funny picture of Gucci in it

FIFA's 'internal struggle' over Russia, Qatar World Cups

What's the tattoo on Gucci's forearm?

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What's the tattoo on Gucci's forearm?

Reza.

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let's let them host the games with empty stadiums in empty cities and subways


http://news.yahoo.com/qatar-faces-fi...162139033.html


Qatar faces first budget deficit for 15 years

"Doha (AFP) - Qatar faces a budget deficit in 2016 for the first time in 15 years because of the oil price slump but vowed Wednesday to forge ahead with huge spending plans as 2022 World Cup host."

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Alright, time to stop shifting focus from whether we'll make it to Russia to is it it really Russia we need to make it to?!

Fifa crisis: Threat of Russia and Qatar being stripped of next two World Cups intensifies

Click on the link above for full article. Highlights:

* Michael Lauber, Swiss attorney general, declared he would have no qualms about removing the 2018 and 2022 WC's from Russia and Qatar or Sepp Blatter being dragged into his probe.

* The raids on FIFA headquarters and elsewhere has led to the seizure of nine terabytes of information (equivalent to a 750 million page word document)!

* They have evidence of 53 more suspicious banking transactions so far, that's in addition to the 104 they had before.

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things starting to crumble

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/qatar-p...1677--sow.html


Qatar paid $1.8 million to make World Cup bid to African congress

"Paris (AFP) - Qatar paid the African Football Confederation $1.8 million (1.6 million euros) to present its bid for the 2022 World Cup at a congress, the continent's top football official told a French magazine."

CAF president and FIFA vice president Issa Hayatou said he saw nothing wrong with the payment made before the confederation held a congress in the Angolan capital Luanda in January 2010.

Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup later the same year at a controversial FIFA vote now under investigation by Swiss authorities.

Paris-based Jeune Afrique magazine asked Hayatou about the donation from Qatar.

"It was $1.8 million, not one million. Paid in two times 900,000 dollars," the controversial AFC chief replied.

"The Qataris gave it to us to be able to show their plan (for the 2022 World Cup) during the congress."

Hayatou insisted he had not expected other candidates, including the United States and Australia, to pay for a similar privilege.

"Not necessarily. We didn't ask Qatar to do it. They proposed it. We did not ban the other candidates from taking part in the presentation," he was quoted as saying, while also denying that it was a bid to buy African votes.

- Clear conscience -

"I convened immediately after a meeting of the CAF executive committee to say that what had happened did not commit us to anything. I did not make any recommendation and everyone voted according to their soul and conscience."

Hayatou also denied there was any corruption in the vote which gave the 2010 World Cup to South Africa.

Asked about the payment, a CAF spokesman told AFP that Qatar "wanted to have this privilege exclusively" to make its presentation.
"A proposition was made to the executive committee which adopted it. Qatar presented its bid. The money was paid to CAF and is noted in the confederation's accounts," the spokesman added.


Johnny Manziel says he won't bring back his 'money sign'
Qatar paid $1.8 million to make World Cup bid to African congress
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FIFA president Joseph Blatter opens the envelope to reveal that Qatar will host the 2022 World Cup at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich on December 2, 2010
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CAF president and FIFA vice president Issa Hayatou said he saw nothing wrong with the payment made before the confederation held a congress in the Angolan capital Luanda in January 2010.

Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup later the same year at a controversial FIFA vote now under investigation by Swiss authorities.

Paris-based Jeune Afrique magazine asked Hayatou about the donation from Qatar.

"It was $1.8 million, not one million. Paid in two times 900,000 dollars," the controversial AFC chief replied.

"The Qataris gave it to us to be able to show their plan (for the 2022 World Cup) during the congress."

Hayatou insisted he had not expected other candidates, including the United States and Australia, to pay for a similar privilege.
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"Not necessarily. We didn't ask Qatar to do it. They proposed it. We did not ban the other candidates from taking part in the presentation," he was quoted as saying, while also denying that it was a bid to buy African votes.

- Clear conscience -

"I convened immediately after a meeting of the CAF executive committee to say that what had happened did not commit us to anything. I did not make any recommendation and everyone voted according to their soul and conscience."

Hayatou also denied there was any corruption in the vote which gave the 2010 World Cup to South Africa.

Asked about the payment, a CAF spokesman told AFP that Qatar "wanted to have this privilege exclusively" to make its presentation.

"A proposition was made to the executive committee which adopted it. Qatar presented its bid. The money was paid to CAF and is noted in the confederation's accounts," the spokesman added.

Qatar did not comment on the report but has in the past strongly denied any wrongdoing connected to its bid.

Hayatou also denied any knowledge of bribes paid to secure the 1998 and 2010 World Cups.

US investigators believe that a $10 million payment made by South Africa to a disgraced Caribbean football official was a bid to buy votes. South Africa has strongly denied any wrongdoing.

"Fixed by who?" said Hayatou. "All I can tell you is that we, the Africans, carried out a draw so we did not give the impression we were for one or the other candidate."

The 2006 vote for the first World Cup in Africa was between South Africa and Morocco. Hayatou said it was decided to give two of Africa's FIFA executive committee votes to South Africa and two to Morocco.

British media reports have linked Hayatou to corruption scandals. But he said he did not think that FIFA was riddled with corruption and added that he was not worried by the controversies that have rocked the world body.

"I am not afraid of anything because I have not done anything," said Hayatou. "My conscience is clear," he was quoted as saying.

Swiss authorities are investigating the attribution of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar. US investigators have charged 14 people over the paying of more than $150 million in bribes to soccer officials.

Hayatou was accused of accepting bribes by a former Qatar bid employee, Phaedra Almajid.

Almajid said she was present when the Qatar bid organisation paid $1.5 million to three African members of FIFA's executive committee to secure their votes for Qatar, which was awarded the hosting rights for the 2022 tournament.

The former employee made a sworn statement recanting her allegations, but later still she told the FBI that representatives of the Qatar bid had pressured her to do so.

"I've never seen this woman in my life," Hayatou was quoted as saying.

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Humpty Dumpty and Valcke have both been forced to hire a lawyer

Top two FIFA officials hire lawyers as Swiss probe bank transactions

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Too much investigations. Do we see Qatari team in 2022 as a host or not?

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"Not necessarily. We didn't ask Qatar to do it. They proposed it. We did not ban the other candidates from taking part in the presentation," he was quoted as saying, while also denying that it was a bid to buy African votes.

Asked about the payment, a CAF spokesman told AFP that Qatar "wanted to have this privilege exclusively" to make its presentation.
"A proposition was made to the executive committee which adopted it..." the spokesman added.

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Logic of strawman facing undeniable evidence. Albate ma in pool ro baraye ray dadan nagereftim faghat ye kado naghabel bood.

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They have been giving and receiving bribes for such a long time, that I think they truly believe some of the nonsense that comes out of their mouth. Or maybe this is just the normal mode of operation in qatari land.

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They have been giving and receiving bribes for such a long time, that I think they truly believe some of the nonsense that comes out of their mouth. Or maybe this is just the normal mode of operation in qatari land.

Logic of strawman facing undeniable evidence. Albate ma in pool ro baraye ray dadan nagereftim faghat ye kado naghabel bood.

LOL. Yeah, it's really starting to look like these guys have done it so many times and for so long, they've completely lost touch with what taking a bribe means.

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Sepp Blatter, FIFA President, Says 'I Did Not Resign'


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...usaolp00000592

"Despite announcing earlier this month that he would step down as FIFA president, Sepp Blatter felt the need to clarify Thursday that he has not resigned from office and has no intention of showing himself the door.

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^^^ Safe to assume he has gone senile!