Sepp Blatter Announces Resignation
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Sell A Latter got me LOL. Good one.
Aaron Davidson looking to cut a deal which means he has some dirt
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/s...-deal-fifa-corruption-probe-article-1.2243020
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/s...-deal-fifa-corruption-probe-article-1.2243020
like i mentioned in the other thread. I hope this doesnt mean that FIFA will go back to euro centric version of FIFA where anyone outside of UEFA dont matter. That is my only concern, that or that new president keeps doing the same blatter did at the healm.
Unless they find significant bribes, etc from it I doubt anything will change with 2018/22
Then what was all of this for, making the 2026 World Cup bidding process fair? I think within the next decade there will be some bribery coming up somewhere in FIFA.
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2018 is too close so I'm sure that will stay no matter what they find, but moving 2022 to the US or some other country that already has most of the infrastructure seems more likely. Blatter couldn't back down, but whoever comes in can start with a fresh slate. They know how much holding the cup in the winter just to avoid summer temperatures in a furnace that should never have gotten the Cup to begin with will piss off UEFA and other leagues around the world. They're going to uncover bribes and even if they don't, stripping Qatar of the Cup is a great bit of political theater that just makes sense for whoever the incoming head is to say that they won't be as corrupt (whether or not they will actually be less corrupt is another matter).
I assume pressure from the sponsors (particularly the major ones) about the indictments also had some impact on his decision to step down.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32969992
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32969992
If they move it, politically it owuld be less controversial to move it to another country in the Asian Football Confederation. Which probably leaves China, South Korea, Japan and Australia as likely candidates with infrastructure in place, although that's just a guess.
Also, while I think moving Russia's cup to another country is unlikely, I expect other countries in Europe could handle it on very short notice -- Germany, England, Spain, France or Italy perhaps. If you have the stadiums/stadia, whatever, in place the rest can be done comparatively quickly, although some things could get a bit messy.
Of course, Putin would probably invade a few more countries if that happened.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a great idea? I'm not crazy about the optics of moving the Middle East World Cup to the US. That's just some bad karma.
