cant get more crooked than either, now looking back on it the home team winning the world cup doesn't look so suspicious
So is 2022 voting gonna be opened up again? Tabloids seem to think so. Sorry if you've been talking about it, don't feel like reading 3 pages.
FIFA has stated it cannot be changed but fuck them if they think the WC is going to be in mother fucking Qatar
I hope they build those super-expensive stadiums, and then we invade two months before the World Cup starts and "inadvertently" carpet-bomb the whole fucking place.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1394256/FIFA-hit-fresh-sleaze-row-CONCACAF-president-Lisle-Austin-suspended.html
What is it with these island nation Soccer Presidents? Power goes straight to their head. Blazer just doing his job, tired of watching Warner acting like a corrupt POS, stepped in and has to deal with this shit? Wouldn't surprise me if Austin was in on it with Warner and was acting as his puppet.
they're all corrupt as shit. I think one of the articles posted in here called austin a "warner ally" or something like that
What do you do with an organization that is that corrupt? Honestly, it's like the Mexicans' war with drug cartels, except no-one has been beheaded (yet). I hope someone takes drastic action and makes an example of Austin and Warner.
I'll be satisfied with any non-Caribbean official as the head of CONCACAF. I really hope this leads to a restructuring of power in CONCACAF where the minnows have pretty much no say. Combine like 10 votes of those tiny countries into 1 vote. They need to realize they're walking a thin line if North and Central America broke away because we'd basically take the Gold Cup with us and the Caribbean nations would get zero money from it, they'd become like the Oceania region.
LOL maradona called them dinosaurs, how appropriate http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id/6625313/fifa-dinosaurs-root-turmoil DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Diego Maradona says corruption and match-fixing scandals that have hit FIFA will continue as long as the sport's governing body is run by "dinosaurs." The Argentine was in Dubai on Saturday to sign a two-year contract to coach the local Dubai Al Wasl club. Maradona said FIFA had been badly run over the years and attacked the re-relection of president Sepp Blatter "who has never kicked a football." Maradona said an ex-soccer player should be in charge but did not suggest anyone. Maradona hasn't coached since leading his country to the 2010 World Cup quarterfinals. His contract was not renewed after the World Cup. The Dubai club has not provided any details of the contract, and Maradona denied reports he is being paid $10 million.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2000546/FIFA-circus-hit-Miami-snub-Row-US-bias-bribe-inquiry.html
I'm sure Mexico, Canada, and Central America will gladly have our backs vs. the CFU. Tread lightly CFU, or you will become like the Oceania confederation.
when they say they want a "truly independent investigator," i'm sure they mean one from the caribbean
This line form that article had me cracking up: "The civil war within Concacaf further intensified as Fifa imposed a worldwide ban on Lisle Austin"
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/17062011/58/world-cup-fifa-suspends-belize-fa-govt-interference.html This is what happens when governments get involved.
Chuck has some explaining to do....... http://www.transparencyinsport.org/Lucky_Chuckie/PDF-documents/$250K-First-Caribbean-Bahamas.pdf
Verdict due soon in the Bin's bribery scandal at FIFA. http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/organisation/news/newsid=1478009/index.html
Debbie Minguell, a Caribbean Football Union officer, is suspended from FIFA related activities for 1 year
Jason Sylvester, a Caribbean Football Union officer, is banned from FIFA related activities for 1 year.
Chuck Blazer accused by 7 Concacaf nations that he'd racially discriminated against them. Not guilty of racism. further investigation into some attendees at the meeting in Caribbean in May
You gotta love the "He's dirty enough to bribe in an election, but too clean to bribe in a bid" thinking FIFA has.
FIFA has banned CONCACAF's Lisle Austin for one year for using the ordinary courts in Bahamas in his dispute.
welp Blazer is about to go down too. FBI on the case. FBI examines U.S. soccer boss's financial records Tue, Aug 16 18:19 PM EDT By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI is examining documents charting more than $500,000 in payments made by a Caribbean soccer group to a top U.S. official of the sport that has been shaken internationally by corruption allegations. According to a U.S. law enforcement officer, a New York-based FBI squad assigned to investigate "Eurasian organized crime" is examining evidence related to payments made to Chuck Blazer, U.S. member of the executive committee of FIFA, the Zurich-based governing body of soccer. Blazer is also general secretary of CONCACAF, the sport's governing body in North and Central America and the Caribbean. He has recently sparked controversy by accusing two other top international soccer officials of corruption. The U.S. law enforcement official would not describe the time frame or extent of the FBI inquiry. But the official said the probe related to documents whose existence was initially reported by the Independent newspaper of London last weekend and on the www.transparencyinsport.org website by British journalist Andrew Jennings, who specializes in investigating alleged corruption in international sports. In an e-mail to Reuters, Blazer denounced Jennings' story as "replete with errors" and said the journalist had a "clear agenda." But Blazer did not deny receiving three offshore payments, totaling more than $500,000. Instead, Blazer insisted that "all of my transactions have been conducted legally." THREE PAYMENTS According to the documents, reviewed by Reuters, three payments were made to offshore accounts maintained by Blazer over the last 15 years. In a letter dated January 29, 1996, Jack Warner, president of the Caribbean Football Union, and until recently president of CONCACAF and vice president of FIFA, instructs the vice president of a bank to wire transfer $57,750 to an account at Barclays Bank in the Cayman Islands maintained by a company called Sportvertising Ltd. The letter says that if any problems arise with the transfer, the bank should contact Blazer at CONCACAF's New York office. A 1990 document, signed by both Blazer and Warner and reviewed by Reuters, identifies Blazer as "President" of Sportvertising Inc. The document, headed "retainer agreement", describes how CONCACAF, via the company, employed Blazer as its general secretary, paying his company both monthly fees and "a 10% override feel on all sponsorships and TV rights fees from all sources received by CONCACAF or for CONCACAF programs/tournaments", excluding "sponsorships arranged at the local level on tournaments and events." Also examined by Reuters are records documenting a $205,000 payment to Sportvertising Inc., dated September 2010. The records includes a notation indicating the payment was on behalf of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU). A third set of documents also in the FBI's possession relates to a purported $250,000 payment by the Caribbean Football Union to Blazer earlier this year. A letter to a bank supervisor dated March 31, 2011, signed by Warner, authorizes the bank to issue a draft worth $250,000 to "CHUCK BLAZE" and to debit the Caribbean Football Union's account accordingly. A second document purports to be a copy of a $250,000 canceled check made out to Chuck Blazer. BLAZER DEFENDS PAYMENTS In e-mails to Reuters, Blazer said he had not been contacted by the FBI or notified by them of any investigation. He said two most recent payments to his company's Caymans accounts were in his view meant to be repayments to him by Warner of "a significant amount of money" that Blazer says he loaned to Warner in 2004. Blazer said that as soon as he saw the most recent payment -- in the form of a check from the Caribbean Football Union -- he "immediately objected". "In the past few weeks I have learned that Mr. Warner treated the CFU accounts as his personal accounts and co-mingled a variety of funds in those accounts," Blazer said. He said he was now "working with the current CFU administration to bring in forensic accountants to attempt to untangle this mess." "My financial affairs have been structured legally and with advice of counsel - a standard practice for individuals of my age," he said. He also said Warner, once his close ally in tense and tangled internal FIFA politicking, now is "attempting to attack me for having disclosed his unlawful conduct." Warner did not respond to a query e-mailed to the Trinidad-based office of the Caribbean Football Union. Earlier this year, shortly before FIFA's governing body was scheduled to hold a vote on whether to re-elect the organization's president, Sepp Blatter, Blazer publicly denounced Warner, a long-time ally, for his alleged involvement in a plot to hand cash bribes to Caribbean soccer officials in return for their votes to support a bid by Qatari soccer official Mohammed bin Hammam to replace Blatter as FIFA chief. In the wake of Blazer's allegations, Hammam was investigated by FIFA's ethics committee on the bribery charges, found guilty of corruption, and banned for life from the game. Hammam is appealing against the FIFA life ban. Last week, FIFA said it opened ethics proceedings against 16 Caribbean soccer federation officials related to the special meeting of the Caribbean Football Union in May. Warner, a FIFA vice president and longest-serving member of the world soccer groups executive committee, was suspended by FIFA pending an inquiry into Blazer's bribery allegations. In June, he resigned from all his positions in international soccer. FIFA dropped the investigation into Warner.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ng-gifts-of-25000-to-Caribbean-delegates.html Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner is caught on tape offering 'gifts’ of £25,000 to Caribbean delegates Exclusive: Jack Warner has been caught on tape apparently urging fellow Caribbean officials to accept cash gifts from Mohamed Bin Hammam, the disgraced former presidential candidate.