Post by xyz1000 on Jun 11, 2014 9:00:53 GMT 8
With the looming World Cup, lots of stories regarding FIFA corruption and how Qatar got the WC2022. Here's a related story of Blatter and a speech to AFC where he pledges funds, likely in order to buy votes from the AFC and CAF, for his bid for presidency. A bid he said in 2011 he would not do.
Will the PFF get some of these funds?
Was anyone from PFF at the meeting to hear Blatter, I wonder.
Sepp Doubles Down, European Feds Planning Protest
June 10, 2014
Sepp Doubles Down, European Feds Planning Protest
Bill Archer
In separate addresses yesterday, FIFA embarrassment Sepp Blatter launched his reelection campaign with a two pronged approach that was met with repeated standing ovations.
His first message was that anyone who agrees that Qatar bought the World Cup by handing out big piles of money is a racist. His second was that after FIFA gets done reaping $4.5 billion from Brazil 2014 he'll be handing everybody big piles of money.
In fairness to Qatar, it must be pointed out that at least when they buy people's support they do it with their own money.
Blatter spoke to the Congress of the African Confederation in the morning and to the parallel meeting of the Asian Confederation in the afternoon, delivering the same speech to wild enthusiasm both times.
He told them that after the World Cup he will be giving everybody even more money than last time around when in addition to the standard $200,000 World Cup Bag O'Loot every one of them also got an additional $300,000 "special bonus", which Sepp handed to each of them personally.
And since no one is ever required to demonstrate that the cash is used for any legitimate footballing purpose, very little of it is. So the news that this time around there'll be even more was met with standing ovations from the assembled Presidents. And likely their wives.
Then, after making it clear that a vote for Sepp will be a vote for a much fatter personal retirement account, he launched a truly despicable, dishonest and disgusting assault on the truth.
Never actually identifying what he was talking about - he didn't need to - he told the cheering delegates that the whole Qatar/bin Hammam bribery kerfuffle is actually an attack by a mysterious unnamed "they" who "want to destroy, not the game, but they want to destroy the institution, because our institution is too strong".....
Will the PFF get some of these funds?
Was anyone from PFF at the meeting to hear Blatter, I wonder.
Sepp Doubles Down, European Feds Planning Protest
June 10, 2014
Sepp Doubles Down, European Feds Planning Protest
Bill Archer
In separate addresses yesterday, FIFA embarrassment Sepp Blatter launched his reelection campaign with a two pronged approach that was met with repeated standing ovations.
His first message was that anyone who agrees that Qatar bought the World Cup by handing out big piles of money is a racist. His second was that after FIFA gets done reaping $4.5 billion from Brazil 2014 he'll be handing everybody big piles of money.
In fairness to Qatar, it must be pointed out that at least when they buy people's support they do it with their own money.
Blatter spoke to the Congress of the African Confederation in the morning and to the parallel meeting of the Asian Confederation in the afternoon, delivering the same speech to wild enthusiasm both times.
He told them that after the World Cup he will be giving everybody even more money than last time around when in addition to the standard $200,000 World Cup Bag O'Loot every one of them also got an additional $300,000 "special bonus", which Sepp handed to each of them personally.
And since no one is ever required to demonstrate that the cash is used for any legitimate footballing purpose, very little of it is. So the news that this time around there'll be even more was met with standing ovations from the assembled Presidents. And likely their wives.
Then, after making it clear that a vote for Sepp will be a vote for a much fatter personal retirement account, he launched a truly despicable, dishonest and disgusting assault on the truth.
Never actually identifying what he was talking about - he didn't need to - he told the cheering delegates that the whole Qatar/bin Hammam bribery kerfuffle is actually an attack by a mysterious unnamed "they" who "want to destroy, not the game, but they want to destroy the institution, because our institution is too strong".....