EPT2015 - 2016 Football Thread - Page 155
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{CC}StealthBlue
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sneirac
Germany3464 Posts
Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, the Bahraini president of the Asian Football Confederation, is to stand for the FIFA presidency, sources have told Sky News. The move by the 49 year-old member of Bahrain's royal family makes him the favourite to become leader of world football's governing body, and could end any prospect of Michel Platini succeeding Sepp Blatter. Sheikh Salman, who is expected to confirm his candidacy next week following an emergency meeting of FIFA's executive committee, has only been a member of the FIFA body since 2013, having won the presidency of the AFC in the same year. Until recently he was Platini's most influential supporter, urging more than 50 Asian FIFA members to back the Frenchman's candidacy Sky News Well if you're hoping for change in Fifa, this is the worst case scenario, really Blatter again would probably be better. We should all hope that someone somewhere has something to charge him with, though I don't even think that would make a difference. Edit: An FA statement read: "The FA wishes Mr Platini every success in fighting these charges and clearing his name, and has no interest in taking any action that jeopardises this process. "However, notwithstanding the above, at the Uefa meeting on Thursday, the FA learned more information relating to the issues at the centre of this case from Mr Platini's lawyers. "We have been instructed that the information must be kept confidential and therefore we cannot go into specifics. FA suspends support for Michel Platini's president bid | ||
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HolydaKing
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Pandemona
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sneirac
Germany3464 Posts
On October 16 2015 23:03 HolydaKing wrote: Looks like the World Cup in Germany was bought by illegal means. 6.7 million € were paid for something that never happened (if I understood this correctly). Would be sort of sad but personally I would find it funny because we were always pointing at Qatar etc. There's two different stories going on right now. One is Spiegel Online claiming that there was a slush fund used for different bribes of voting members, to a total amount of 13m DM (6.5m €), with involvement of a couple of people that would be hit hard if it is true. Like Niersbach rumored to run for Uefa presidency. The other story is that the DFB thinks a 2005 payment of 6.7m € that was intended for the Fifa culture programm may have been misused, www.dfb.de. | ||
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HolydaKing
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On October 16 2015 23:09 Pandemona wrote: Wow pretty interesting news that. Is it literally just England's world cup bids who don't buy votes? Is that why we have failed so much TT Hehe, tbh I bet every single World Cup in the last centuries was bought. :D Sneirac: Thx for explaining, I edited my post because I knew it wasn't everything. Yours sounds good. | ||
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RvB
Netherlands6326 Posts
On October 16 2015 23:09 Pandemona wrote: Wow pretty interesting news that. Is it literally just England's world cup bids who don't buy votes? Is that why we have failed so much TT Is that really the case though? I mean if all the WCs are bought most other bids probably probably try to bribe as well. | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
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sharkie
Austria18772 Posts
On October 16 2015 23:09 Pandemona wrote: Wow pretty interesting news that. Is it literally just England's world cup bids who don't buy votes? Is that why we have failed so much TT No, this means that England offered less money than the others. | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
 we are the ones who have not been caught. So far the only World Cup which hasn't been connected with bribes is Japan and Brazil! Nice | ||
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Ysellian
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Micro_Jackson
Germany2002 Posts
On October 16 2015 23:03 HolydaKing wrote: Looks like the World Cup in Germany was bought by illegal means. Would be sort of sad but personally I would find it funny because we were always pointing at Qatar etc. At this point it is pretty naive to think that any world cup in the past 50 years isnt linked to corruption one way or another. Same with stuff like Olympic games, tv rights, player transfers... Any business were very few people decide over a lot of money without any regulation or supervision is corrupt to some degree. | ||
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TheNewEra
Germany3128 Posts
On October 16 2015 23:03 HolydaKing wrote: Looks like the World Cup in Germany was bought by illegal means. Would be sort of sad but personally I would find it funny because we were always pointing at Qatar etc. I always knew that Martin Sonneborns bribe, consisting of Ham and a Cuckoo Clock would come back to bite us in the ass  | ||
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Mafe
Germany5966 Posts
-The german bidding committee received 13 million D-mark from (then?) adidas-boss Louis-Dreyfuß in 2000. -They never declared the money in any official documents. -The money was a loan, used to "secure the votes from asia". -In 2005 he (Louis-Dreyfuß) wants the money back. -The (now) organizing committee transfers 6,7 million € (thats almost exactly 13 millions D-mark) to FIFA, for some opening ceremony which was never to happen. Beckenbauer acknowledged this payment. -FIFA was supposed (no mention of by whom precisely) to give the money back to the adidas-man. No mention of whther that actually happened. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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sharkie
Austria18772 Posts
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Dingodile
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On October 17 2015 03:32 sharkie wrote: Dortmund vs Mainz today, I hope Mainz wins - they deserve it after how Tuchel treated them (saying that as a BVB fan) Klopp and Favre didnt do the same?! (+ disclaimed the dismissal wage) | ||
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haitike
Spain2744 Posts
Be afraid of the 28 years Spanish Federation godfather. | ||
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RvB
Netherlands6326 Posts
On October 17 2015 05:02 haitike wrote: Villar is the UEFA interim president while Platini is out. Be afraid of the 28 years Spanish Federation godfather. Football is fucked for the next 20 years I guess. Seriously it's the only sport which instead of going into the 21st century went backwards to the 19th. | ||
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zeo
Serbia6344 Posts
On October 17 2015 05:24 RvB wrote: Football is fucked for the next 20 years I guess. Seriously it's the only sport which instead of going into the 21st century went backwards to the 19th. No, football has been fucked for the last 20 years. The next 20 can only get better with less corruption. Still waiting for a proper investigation into the rampant corruption in the Champions League over the last decade | ||
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