Foul! - Corruption Within FIFA

Paully D

It's a few years old now but I'd still strongly recommend a read of this book for those that are interested in reading up on corruption within FIFA:



The book can be purchased for around €5 on Amazon which is great value for a fantastic insight.

Here's a small pdf file with an about the author (Andrew Jennings) section, a list of chapters and some parts of the 1st chapter available to preview:

http://www.transparencyinsport.org/foul_chapter_one.pdf

And here's another preview pdf file of how FIFA hide their bribes:

http://www.playthegame.org/upload/Andrew_Jennings_-_Hiding_the_Bribes.pdf

Blatter and co are nothing but leeches living off corruption within the beautiful game. It's a shame more people like Jennings aren't willing to stand up to them and try to blow their whole set-up wide open.

The book is a massive eye-opener!

Paparazzo

Grant Wahl (journalist from sports illustrated) was trying to run for Fifa president. He was going to get every Fifa memo from the last 10 years and put it online and clean up the organisation. He needed to get one nominated from a national football organisation. He didn't get one nomination. Worth a read, here's a bit about it:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/grant_wahl/04/01/fifa.candidacy/index.html?eref=si_writers

Jelle1880

Totally agreed.

I always knew FIFA were corrupt, but that book goes in to so much details, it's sickening for everyone who loves football.

weldoninhio

I got it free with 442 a month or two ago, great read.

Pyongyang

weldoninhio wrote: »

I got it free with 442 a month or two ago, great read.

This. I've not gotten round to reading it yet though. Seems interesting though.

steelcityblues

Does it mention South Korea matches at the 2002 World Cup?

Biggest joke ever that was!

keano_afc

weldoninhio wrote: »

I got it free with 442 a month or two ago, great read.

Typical, I havent bought 442 in about 2 months and I miss this.

TheTownie

FIFA are an absolute joke!

Calling it an "election" is just insulting everyone's intelligence!

Blatter is not running in 2015 and it just so happens Platini is?

Talk about results being set in stone!

Ridiculous!

Paully D

weldoninhio wrote: »

I got it free with 442 a month or two ago, great read.

Very good offer.

Kidchameleon

Would UEFA be as corrupt?

Cantona's Collars

Lord Triesmann is giving his statement regarding the World Cup Bid-he has uncovered and highlighted a huge amount of corruption within FIFA,for example,Jack Warner wanted a £2.5 million football school to be paid for by the FA.

dizzywizlw

Declan Hill's book 'the fix' is a great read on corruption in football itself




Good mix of institutional corruption and organised crime in it if a bit stilted.

Headshot

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/may/10/lord-triesman-fifa

Lord Triesman, the former Football Association and England 2018 chairman, has accused several Fifa executive committee members of "improper and unethical" behaviour.

He told the select committee looking into football that the Fifa vice-president Jack Warner asked for money – suggested to be £2.5m – to build an education centre in Trinidad with the cash to be channelled through him, and later £500,000 to buy Haiti's World Cup TV rights for the earthquake-hit nation, also to go through Warner.

Paraguay's Fifa member, Nicolás Leoz, asked for a knighthood, he alleged, while Brazil's Fifa member, Ricardo Teixeira, asked Triesman to "come and tell me what you have got for me", although Triesman said the comment could be open to interpretation.

Thailand's Fifa member, Worawi Makudi, wanted to be given the TV rights to a friendly between England and the Thai national team, said Triesman.

The Tory MP Damian Collins said that evidence submitted by the Sunday Times, which the committee will publish, claimed that the Fifa vice-president Issa Hayatou from Cameroon and Jacques Anouma from Ivory Coast were paid $1.5m (£900,000) by Qatar. Fifa's ethics committee last year banned two other executive committee members after a Sunday Times investigation into World Cup bidding.

Collins said: "The Sunday Times' submission, and this is to be published by us later, claims that $1.5m was paid to Fifa executive committee members Issa Hayatou and Jacques Anouma who went on to vote for Qatar."

Collins said the submission claimed Qatar specifically employed a fixer to arrange deals with African members for their votes.

Mike Lee, the London-based public relations consultant who worked on Qatar's bid, said he was unaware of any payments being made. Lee, formerly communications director of the Premier League, Uefa and London's 2012 Olympic bid, told MPs: "I was working at the highest level of that bid and talking at length with the chairman and CEO and saw no evidence of any of these allegations.

"My experience is I would have had a sense if such things were going on and I had no sense of that."

Meanwhile, asked why he did not report the incidents to Fifa, Triesman said he feared that would damage the England bid but admitted he should have done so and pushed for action.

"The point was not pressed," he said. "And I think, in retrospect, we would have burned off our chances. In retrospect that was not the right view to take and I accept that."

John Whittingdale, chairman of the committee, said he would now be writing to the Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, to launch an investigation into the evidence "as a matter of urgency". Triesman added that he would undertake to provide his evidence to any Fifa inquiry.

Blatters pals of course

StickyMcGinty

Great book, last chapter covers the Mastercard / Visa sponsership of the World Cup and how FIFA "tendered" the contract

Chucky the tree

I suppose offering to putl FIFA heads up in a hotel for the olmpics isn't corruption? :rolleyes:

Headshot

This really infuriates me tbh

Current president Sepp Blatter says Fifa will be plunged into "a black hole" if rival Mohamed Bin Hammam wins next month's leadership election.

Swiss Blatter is bidding for a fourth term at the helm, with Qatar football chief Bin Hammam standing in his way.

And with the days ticking down to the 1 June vote, Blatter said: "The ballot could lead to a seismic shift with irreversible damage.

"Quite simply, the survival of Fifa is at stake."

He added: "It is a question of whether the game's established world governing body will continue to exist after this date or whether it will disappear into a black hole.

"'Is it that dramatic?' you may ask. The answer is, theoretically, yes, it is."

Blatter is favourite to survive the challenge of Bin Hammam and has the support of European governing body Uefa's executive committee - a potentially decisive factor in the outcome of the vote for one of the most powerful positions in world sport.

And while confident he will retain his position, 75-year-old Blatter warned of what he believes the consequences are of a vote for Bin Hammam.

"What is actually at stake?" asked Blatter, who has been dealing with fresh claims this week about four Fifa executive committee members allegedly asking for favours in return for votes in last year's decision on hosting the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

"The Fifa presidential election is not about candidate A or candidate B, it is about whether there will be any candidates at all in future.

"I am confident that I will win the election with a clear two-thirds majority. South America, Central and North America, Europe, Oceania and a significant part of Africa and Asia will continue to support my ideas.

"Nevertheless, it is worthwhile outlining what the alternative would be, i.e. none at all.

"What applies for every carpenter also applies for us: the roof will only hold as long as the foundations are in place.

"If the ground beneath crumbles, the entire edifice will collapse. And that is precisely what is at stake on 1 June. All or nothing!"

Bin Hammam, meanwhile, this week insisted football's world governing body is not corrupt.

Earlier this week Lord Triesman, who ran England's failed 2018 World Cup bid, made allegations against several high-ranking Fifa officials.

But 62-year-old Bin Hammam said: "I will happily and unreservedly restate that I firmly believe Fifa, as a decision-making body and as an organisation, isn't corrupt."

However, Bin Hammam did say that Fifa needs a "new atmosphere" to dispel negative publicity surrounding the organisation.

"It is impossible to deny that its reputation has been sullied beyond compare," admitted Bin Hammam. "It's time for that to change."

The man is the reason why our sport is in a such a shambles

dreamers75

Headshot wrote: »

The man is the reason why our sport is in a such a shambles

How does he affect football in a significant way and somehow make it a shambles?

Headshot

dreamers75 wrote: »

How does he affect football in a significant way and somehow make it a shambles?

Right

Where do i begin

He's the main man keeping the sport in the stone age, he has his corrupt pals around him. Its easy to see the damage he has done to FIFA and the sport it self

Im not sure why you are confused

dreamers75

Headshot wrote: »

Right

Where do i begin

He's the main man keeping the sport in the stone age, he has his corrupt pals around him. Its easy to see the damage he has done to FIFA and the sport it self

Im not sure why you are confused

How has anyone in FIFA made the sport a shambles? All our leagues running fine, our teams umm playing and winning/losing. our country not very good but not fifas fault.

Just didnt understand how football was a shambles?

Headshot

dreamers75 wrote: »

How has anyone in FIFA made the sport a shambles? All our leagues running fine, our teams umm playing and winning/losing. our country not very good but not fifas fault.

Just didnt understand how football was a shambles?

Blatters pal Jack Warner selling Tickets to South Africa World Cup on the black market but yet Blatter keeps his mate in office

The leagues are going grand because of their associations but the overall sport is a shambles because of corruption and stuck in the stone age because the man is to stubborn to bring in video technology

Look at the recent voting for the WC and you tell me that wasnt a shambles?
Qatar getting the world cup where the country barely plays the sport or has a league and I didnt even mention the weather.

dreamers75

Headshot wrote: »

Blatters pal Jack Warner selling Tickets to South Africa World Cup on the black market but yet Blatter keeps his mate in office

The leagues are going grand because of their associations but the overall sport is a shambles because of corruption and stuck in the stone age because the man is to stubborn to bring in video technology

Look at the recent voting for the WC and you tell me that wasnt a shambles?
Qatar getting the world cup where the country barely plays the sport or has a league and I didnt even mention the weather.

I agree fifa is basically FF in office but they dont actually affect football, they live in their cloud and we live and play in the real world.

Video tech cannot be used unless its used at every level from u7 upwards so a big no no for me. Ffs linesman at a u7 game is a privelge. Football works cos we can do what we see from top level to bottom once we have a ball. You take that away and you kill football.


Football isnt a shambles tbh.

Paully D

dreamers75 wrote: »

I agree fifa is basically FF in office but they dont actually affect football, they live in their cloud and we live and play in the real world.

Video tech cannot be used unless its used at every level from u7 upwards so a big no no for me. Ffs linesman at a u7 game is a privelge. Football works cos we can do what we see from top level to bottom once we have a ball. You take that away and you kill football.


Football isnt a shambles tbh.

I disagree. Rugby doesn't have video technology through all levels, neither does tennis, neither does cricket, neither does NBA or NFL and so on. They all manage fine and it has benefited each and every sport it has been introduced into.

Blatter had the chance to introduce goal-line technology back in 2007 when a chip was inserted into a football which would alert the referee and officials if the full ball had crossed the line. Testing went well, but Blatter back tracked claiming the system was flawed, even though the owner of Hawk-Eye received official documentation stating his product was fine and could be used in football. The only reason he didn't want to introduce it was because it would have taken money which he could pocket away from FIFA.

Modern day football is dying a death and one of the main reasons is because of the likes of Blatter who are more concerned with how to pass millions through banks accounts rather than on how they can improve football.

The game needs to move with the times.

Headshot

dreamers75 wrote: »

I agree fifa is basically FF in office but they dont actually affect football, they live in their cloud and we live and play in the real world.

Video tech cannot be used unless its used at every level from u7 upwards so a big no no for me. Ffs linesman at a u7 game is a privelge. Football works cos we can do what we see from top level to bottom once we have a ball. You take that away and you kill football.


Football isnt a shambles tbh.

So you think all the corruption doesnt effect the game it self?

And that "used at every level from u7 upwards" is such a bunch of crap, I really despise that excuse so much. Im off anyway I dont have time or patience

SM01

dreamers75 wrote: »

Video tech cannot be used unless its used at every level from u7 upwards so a big no no for me.

Why not? Maybe this is over-simplistic but they manage fine in rugby without it.

dreamers75

Settled so........... know nothing know it alls from boards.ie have decreed that football should change from all levels and video tech will fix everything and football is a shambles.

Well done lads, played a stormer. post in the astro thread about how good you did.

Suggestion? maybe actually go to a game ?

Paully D

dreamers75 wrote: »

Settled so........... know nothing know it alls from boards.ie have decreed that football should change from all levels and video tech will fix everything and football is a shambles.

Well done lads, played a stormer. post in the astro thread about how good you did.

Suggestion? maybe actually go to a game ?

Well there's only 3 people posting on this issue not including yourself so I'll take it you're referring to me too. You've obviously got nothing to say in response and instead post a few childish insults.

Know nothings? Have you had a shandy? If you'd bothered to read the posts before hammering the submit reply button you'd have seen I've been anything but decree that football should change from all levels, instead saying that I disagree with you on that point and that all other sports who use video technology don't change that sport at all levels and it works fine.

As for going to a game? I've followed my team around the old 3rd, 2nd and 1st divisions and the Premier League too. I've been to most of the 92 league grounds in England and I'd wager that I've been to more games than you've had hot dinners.

mike65

Jack Warner resigns, charges dropped

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jun/20/fifa-jack-warner-resigns

Jack Warner, the man at the centre of the Fifa bribery scandal, has resigned from all his positions in international football.

Warner, the longest-serving member of Fifa's executive committee, had been suspended pending the outcome of a bribery inquiry.

Fifa said the ethics committee procedures against him "have been closed and the presumption of innocence is maintained".