Fifa officials including vice president Jeffrey Webb arrested, Blatter getting it at last.

He's appealing everywhere.

Nothing to do with ethics but an administrative error.

Oral agreements are fine, just pass me the dosh... ;)
 
Cosimo said:
Now Jerome Valcke, former Secretary General of FIFA gets a 12 year ban:

http://www.fifa.com/governance/news/y=2016/m=2/news=keep-pending-ethics-2764909.html
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They should disband FIFA, and ban anyone who's ever been involved at any level within that organisation, from having anything to do with any sport governing body.

They're all up to their eyes in corruption. Probably 99% of them.

It's was an organisation set up by crooks, run by crooks, for the benefit of crooks. There's nobody clean there.

It's like looking for an honest, law-abiding person in the mafia, for Pete's sake.
 
Decision day coming for Platini:

ZURICH (AP) — Suspended UEFA President Michel Platini has walked into FIFA headquarters to appeal against his eight-year ban over a $2 million payment approved by Sepp Blatter.

Platini declined to be driven past waiting media and strolled from his nearby hotel into the main entrance.

The former FIFA presidential hopeful denies wrongdoing and is challenging sanctions imposed in December.

FIFA's ethics committee found Platini guilty of accepting gifts, conflicts of interest, and breaching loyalty and general conduct rules. He was fined 80,000 Swiss francs ($81,000).

Ethics judges said Platini's argument was "not convincing" that a verbal contract entitled him to get uncontracted salary for work as Blatter's presidential adviser from 1999-2002.

The FIFA appeals committee, which rarely overturns rulings, could give its verdict this week.

Blatter's appeal hearing is on Tuesday.
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Blatter and Platini have had bans from all football-related activities upheld but their suspensions have been reduced from eight to six years:

http://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/news...os-2766869.html?intcmp=fifacom_hp_module_news

Appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport coming up next:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/25/football/blatter-platini-bans-reduced/

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The presidential election will go ahead tomorrow.

The favourite looks quite dodgy:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/feb/25/sheikh-salman-fifa-election-football-reform

I hope the Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino wins.
 
Show time, sorry election day...

8am - Fifa congress opens in Zurich
8.30am to 11am - Discussion and voting on the reform proposals
11am-12.30pm - Lunch break
12.30pm - Each of the five presidential candidates given 15 minutes to address the congress
2pm - Voting begins in the Fifa presidential election. Each round of voting will take 1hr 40min
5.30pm - If election goes to two rounds, the new Fifa president should be announced
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Live here:


First round:

Gianni Infantino - 88 votes
Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa - 85 votes
Prince Ali bin al-Hussein - 27 votes
Jerome Champagne - 7 votes

Now the second round of voting...
 
He's always seemed like a decent bloke when there's a FIFA gig going on so hopefully that'll prove to be the case.
 
Good choice. Hopefully this guy will make the necessary changes. Glad it wasn't sheikh salman but I was rooting for prince ali in all honesty.
 
I do find it hard to imagine that anyone working within FIFA was ever squeaky clean.

Blatter always talked about the FIFA "family", and I did notice the hugging and kissing going on between Infantino and many others. In most professional organisations that would be extremely odd. You don't normally have such closeness with your work colleagues.

But FIFA does seem to be like the "families" of the mafia. How much will really change remains to be seen, but I think a healthy does of scepticism is needed.

Just to add: he's clearly a smart chap. But then intelligence is no indicator of integrity.
 
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