Blatter Resigning

[benteke]

this is the nonsense geopolitics that underlines this whole thing, what is FBI doing poking its nose into Russia 2018

i will say again, its about time we go to WW3 or at least to the brink of WW3, these bullies have had it nice for too long

[txj]

It is not paranoia. It is motivated by facts and current events.

There is a lot of paranoia being stirred by people who are afraid to lose their pecking order in the crony patronage system that served Blatter so well.

What football needs is someone who will develop the game and not the personal interests of a few.

For instance, while it is important to expand the game to new territories, it is equally imperative that, this doesn't become a strategy by itself for self aggrandizement, and for mere perpetuation of power.

By any objective analysis, while it is noble to take the WC to the Arab world, the decision to award the WC to Qatar was flawed.

As we speak Adamu is back in the corridors of power at CAF headquarters.

You mean like the facts Nyantakyi cited above?

[YUJAM]

Simple. European interests!

Europe has a big image problem when it comes to how people perceive their intentions with respect to how they intend to run FIFA

This article by Nyantakyi illustrates this feeling. I also do not trust the likes of Platini and Dyke. My feeling is they will give preference to the Euro agenda, the interests of their clubs, leagues and tourneys. So the best bet for the rest of the world is to form a voting bloc to make sure such a candidate does not replace Blatter



http://africanfootball.com/news/536557/ ... e-European
Nyantakyi thinks next FIFA boss won't be European
Kwesi Nyantakyi

by Ameenu Shardow

Wednesday Jun 03, 2015. 14:44
Ghana FA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi has cast doubts over the election of an European successor to Sepp Blatter as FIFA President over policies that will ‘kill football in Africa’.

Suggestions are being made all over about the best candidate suited to replace Blatter who announced he will be stepping down as FIFA President just under a week of winning a fresh four-year mandate.

The Swiss’ decision to quit the FIFA top job has been met with varied reactions with opinions still split as to whether the move is in the right direction.

While majority of member associations in Europe are rejoicing over Blatter’s imminent departure especially following the recent bribery and corruption allegations thrown at FIFA, most member associations in Africa – who stood resolutely with Blatter during the troubled congress last week – are bitterly disappointed.

Blatter remains very popular in Africa and Asia mainly for the reforms that increasingly leveled the playing field in terms of decision making and profit sharing at FIFA as against the desire of the Europe block to have a majority say due to their superior resources.

Nyantakyi in discussing the future of FIFA on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana, cited planned reforms being championed by the Europeans that according to the GFA boss will ‘kill football in Africa’ as a reason why the next FIFA President is unlikely to come from the West.

“I don’t think a candidate from Europe can have enough votes from Africa and Asia to become the next FIFA President,” he said.

“The reforms being put forward by Europe is only meant to serve their interest and will kill football in Africa.

“For instance, they made a request to the FIFA Executive Committee to play friendly matches only amongst themselves.

“They have also increasingly restricting the number of African players in their leagues where in fact African players have played integral roles in making them attractive.

“These reforms were of course not accepted and so you can see clearly attempts being made by Europe to make them more powerful by crippling the other blocks.”

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Essien seals move to Greek champions Panathinaikos
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Bwalya: 'A sad day for football'
Bwalya: 'A sad day for football'
Outgoing Blatter wishes football to be the winner

And this is what would 'kill football in Africa'?

These are the muppets who run African football!!!

[txj]

this is the nonsense geopolitics that underlines this whole thing, what is FBI doing poking its nose into Russia 2018

i will say again, its about time we go to WW3 or at least to the brink of WW3, these bullies have had it nice for too long

It is investigating corruption. It might be a novel idea to you, but that's what it exists to do!

[txj]

Simple. European interests!

Europe has a big image problem when it comes to how people perceive their intentions with respect to how they intend to run FIFA

This article by Nyantakyi illustrates this feeling. I also do not trust the likes of Platini and Dyke. My feeling is they will give preference to the Euro agenda, the interests of their clubs, leagues and tourneys. So the best bet for the rest of the world is to form a voting bloc to make sure such a candidate does not replace Blatter



http://africanfootball.com/news/536557/ ... e-European
Nyantakyi thinks next FIFA boss won't be European
Kwesi Nyantakyi

by Ameenu Shardow

Wednesday Jun 03, 2015. 14:44
Ghana FA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi has cast doubts over the election of an European successor to Sepp Blatter as FIFA President over policies that will ‘kill football in Africa’.

Suggestions are being made all over about the best candidate suited to replace Blatter who announced he will be stepping down as FIFA President just under a week of winning a fresh four-year mandate.

The Swiss’ decision to quit the FIFA top job has been met with varied reactions with opinions still split as to whether the move is in the right direction.

While majority of member associations in Europe are rejoicing over Blatter’s imminent departure especially following the recent bribery and corruption allegations thrown at FIFA, most member associations in Africa – who stood resolutely with Blatter during the troubled congress last week – are bitterly disappointed.

Blatter remains very popular in Africa and Asia mainly for the reforms that increasingly leveled the playing field in terms of decision making and profit sharing at FIFA as against the desire of the Europe block to have a majority say due to their superior resources.

Nyantakyi in discussing the future of FIFA on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana, cited planned reforms being championed by the Europeans that according to the GFA boss will ‘kill football in Africa’ as a reason why the next FIFA President is unlikely to come from the West.

“I don’t think a candidate from Europe can have enough votes from Africa and Asia to become the next FIFA President,” he said.

“The reforms being put forward by Europe is only meant to serve their interest and will kill football in Africa.

“For instance, they made a request to the FIFA Executive Committee to play friendly matches only amongst themselves.

“They have also increasingly restricting the number of African players in their leagues where in fact African players have played integral roles in making them attractive.

“These reforms were of course not accepted and so you can see clearly attempts being made by Europe to make them more powerful by crippling the other blocks.”

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Essien seals move to Greek champions Panathinaikos
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Bwalya: 'A sad day for football'
Bwalya: 'A sad day for football'
Outgoing Blatter wishes football to be the winner

And this is what would 'kill football in Africa'?

These are the muppets who run African football!!!

Why is Nyantakyi more concerned about places for African players in the European leagues, than the loss of players to Europe by the Ghanaian league?

[platinum]

Excellent writing from Barney Ronay. He brings home some salient issues.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blo ... -world-cup

Such is the bloody mess left by the executive decapitation at Fifa it is almost impossible right now, even for those with their eyes fixed on the detail, to see an easy route out of the chaos. Some things, though, are clear enough. In confusing times it is often best simply to tune out the most distracting voices, just as elite football managers are said to shut out all distractions in the heat of battle, blind to anything that will not help them win. With this in mind the first thing that needs to happen, for the good of the game, is that Greg Dyke needs to stop talking. No, really Greg. That will do.

On Wednesday morning the FA chairman could be heard once again repeating with absolute, combative certainty his belief the 2022 World Cup bidding process should be reopened and Fifa itself reconstituted to a precise set of Dyke-approved rules. Never mind Dyke appears to be a little shaky on some of the details, objecting repeatedly on BBC radio that nobody (nobody!) in Blatter’s own organisation had told the president to resign, and thereby overlooking the fact the head of Dyke’s own federation had demanded exactly that last week.

The more urgent issue is that, at a moment of transformational chaos in football’s governing body, Dyke has no one within his own organisation to tell him to stop talking. Or at least to stop saying all the wrong things during an impasse that requires not squealed demands for a recount but diplomacy, tact and above all an understanding of how this looks to the rest of the world.

The war against Blatter may have been won for now. The much bigger challenge, indeed the whole point of the exercise, is to win the peace. Blatter’s exit will be irrelevant if Blatterism itself, the politics of self-interest and calculated division, is allowed to fester in the unscabbed wounds.

With this in mind what Dyke and many in Europe seem unwilling to accept is that Blatter was voted in as the Fifa president not because those who backed him are all corrupt, ill-informed, or motivated by anti-European bile (although some may be). But because many of Blatter’s supporters saw the incumbent as the lesser of two evils, a flawed but oleaginously ingratiating outreach candidate.


Post-Blatter there is a fear outside Uefa and North America of a Euro-centred power grab, a Carthaginian Peace where wrongs under Blatter are used as a moral imperative to take back and exclude – a moment of punitive opportunism for the old world.

Michel Platini is the favourite to win a re-run election. Platini may have backed Qatar as an arm of the Franco-Qatari entente cordiale but he is above all the head of Uefa, an organisation that centralises its wealth and which represents the most powerful interests in world football, the same European clubs and associations that hog the programme for the other 46 months between World Cups. Good luck, Africa, with that one.

The issue here boils down to timing and smart politics. Dyke may be right in the abstract. A World Cup in Qatar is an undesirable prospect for many reasons, not least because migrant workers will continue to die at an unprecedented rate as the infrastructure is built, just as migrant workers will continue to die all over the world while people are desperate to escape poverty and others willing to exploit them.

Football can make a powerful statement that this will not happen in its name but as a point of principle this will resonate only if it can do so with clean hands and with no hint of self-interest. The worst possible outcome now is to convey to the rest of the world that this is all about sour grapes over the award of a World Cup, rather than the objective facts of corruption and death. Europe must be seen to be fairer than fair, to set its own example of disinterested meritocracy.

For this reason calls to strip Qatar of its tournament should be muted until there is absolute, unarguable evidence of a corrupt vote, a case that makes itself. For now it is a moment to let events play themselves out. Maybe there is even something to be learnt here from Blatter’s astonishing success over 17 dictatorial years. Beyond the tawdry details here is a leader with the fine diplomatic sense to recognise a large portion of the footballing world felt overlooked and marginalised, and that by doing something he would be doing more than nothing.

Africa deserves better than Blatter (everyone deserves better than Blatter) but when Fifa members outside Europe look to the old world beyond the president there are plenty who see hypocrisy and entitlement. In Dyke they might see an FA chairman who has accepted not one but 16 watches during his own tenure, including the famous £16,000 job during the World Cup in Brazil (since returned). They might see an English FA that couldn’t even make a decent fist of de facto bribery, offering up 24 Mulberry handbags to Fifa committee members’ wives during its own bid process and thereby allowing even Jack Warner to claim the moral high ground by returning his unwanted bag with the disdain of a man palming off a Christmas cracker prize.

In this context the principles Blatter preached, if not the practice – global reach, inclusion – have a great deal to commend them. This is a moment for tact and conciliation, for reaching out. What the English FA appears to be offering is a dunk in the gunge tank, Timmy Mallet leaping up on Radio 4 and battering the rest of the world over the head with his foam-rubber hammer of righteousness.

What comes next will be the key. Russia will host the 2018 World Cup whatever any investigations uncover about the process involved. Qatar looks more vulnerable. First because of the human cost of its construction, and second because of the basic absurdity of staging a tournament there in the first place.

And yet football will go on either side of Qatar, as will Fifa in whatever shape can be crafted. If Dyke really has to say something it should be to announce England has no interest at all in staging a 2022 World Cup, and the FA believes the tournament should stay in that region whatever the outcome. Abu Dhabi and Dubai have staged plenty of global sporting events. Failing that, give it to Malaysia or China. Give it to Ghana or Greenland. Give it to anyone who hasn’t had a World Cup, anywhere that feels under-represented, and do so with a smile. A united, uncorrupted future is what is at stake here, not four weeks of pageantry in June.

Beyond this the wider fixing of Fifa will be a matter of controlled, consensual change. Ideally independent accountants would end up logging every dollar in and every dollar out, with Fifa edged closer to the unlikely dream of an independent, utterly transparent charitable administrator. How close we get to this, with the looming fudge of a Euro-takeover, the threat of split and division, depends entirely on engagement, tact and trust. It is possible to reform Fifa and to make the world see sense on Qatar. But not simply – Greg, please – by shouting it down.

Like I told Waffiman earlier, Greg Dyke is not to be taken seriously on this issue...

Part of the issue is there're very few of them who you can point to and say 'this one is clean or worthy'. It almost has to be a greenhorn or outsider who comes in and takes charge of cleaning FIFA and forcing a cleansing of the continental confeds AND then the local country FA's. The web is complex.

[benteke]

this is the nonsense geopolitics that underlines this whole thing, what is FBI doing poking its nose into Russia 2018

i will say again, its about time we go to WW3 or at least to the brink of WW3, these bullies have had it nice for too long

It is investigating corruption. It might be a novel idea to you, but that's what it exists to do!

ive seen your arguments in this thread, i wont waste my time

[txj]

Excellent writing from Barney Ronay. He brings home some salient issues.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blo ... -world-cup

Such is the bloody mess left by the executive decapitation at Fifa it is almost impossible right now, even for those with their eyes fixed on the detail, to see an easy route out of the chaos. Some things, though, are clear enough. In confusing times it is often best simply to tune out the most distracting voices, just as elite football managers are said to shut out all distractions in the heat of battle, blind to anything that will not help them win. With this in mind the first thing that needs to happen, for the good of the game, is that Greg Dyke needs to stop talking. No, really Greg. That will do.

On Wednesday morning the FA chairman could be heard once again repeating with absolute, combative certainty his belief the 2022 World Cup bidding process should be reopened and Fifa itself reconstituted to a precise set of Dyke-approved rules. Never mind Dyke appears to be a little shaky on some of the details, objecting repeatedly on BBC radio that nobody (nobody!) in Blatter’s own organisation had told the president to resign, and thereby overlooking the fact the head of Dyke’s own federation had demanded exactly that last week.

The more urgent issue is that, at a moment of transformational chaos in football’s governing body, Dyke has no one within his own organisation to tell him to stop talking. Or at least to stop saying all the wrong things during an impasse that requires not squealed demands for a recount but diplomacy, tact and above all an understanding of how this looks to the rest of the world.

The war against Blatter may have been won for now. The much bigger challenge, indeed the whole point of the exercise, is to win the peace. Blatter’s exit will be irrelevant if Blatterism itself, the politics of self-interest and calculated division, is allowed to fester in the unscabbed wounds.

With this in mind what Dyke and many in Europe seem unwilling to accept is that Blatter was voted in as the Fifa president not because those who backed him are all corrupt, ill-informed, or motivated by anti-European bile (although some may be). But because many of Blatter’s supporters saw the incumbent as the lesser of two evils, a flawed but oleaginously ingratiating outreach candidate.


Post-Blatter there is a fear outside Uefa and North America of a Euro-centred power grab, a Carthaginian Peace where wrongs under Blatter are used as a moral imperative to take back and exclude – a moment of punitive opportunism for the old world.

Michel Platini is the favourite to win a re-run election. Platini may have backed Qatar as an arm of the Franco-Qatari entente cordiale but he is above all the head of Uefa, an organisation that centralises its wealth and which represents the most powerful interests in world football, the same European clubs and associations that hog the programme for the other 46 months between World Cups. Good luck, Africa, with that one.

The issue here boils down to timing and smart politics. Dyke may be right in the abstract. A World Cup in Qatar is an undesirable prospect for many reasons, not least because migrant workers will continue to die at an unprecedented rate as the infrastructure is built, just as migrant workers will continue to die all over the world while people are desperate to escape poverty and others willing to exploit them.

Football can make a powerful statement that this will not happen in its name but as a point of principle this will resonate only if it can do so with clean hands and with no hint of self-interest. The worst possible outcome now is to convey to the rest of the world that this is all about sour grapes over the award of a World Cup, rather than the objective facts of corruption and death. Europe must be seen to be fairer than fair, to set its own example of disinterested meritocracy.

For this reason calls to strip Qatar of its tournament should be muted until there is absolute, unarguable evidence of a corrupt vote, a case that makes itself. For now it is a moment to let events play themselves out. Maybe there is even something to be learnt here from Blatter’s astonishing success over 17 dictatorial years. Beyond the tawdry details here is a leader with the fine diplomatic sense to recognise a large portion of the footballing world felt overlooked and marginalised, and that by doing something he would be doing more than nothing.

Africa deserves better than Blatter (everyone deserves better than Blatter) but when Fifa members outside Europe look to the old world beyond the president there are plenty who see hypocrisy and entitlement. In Dyke they might see an FA chairman who has accepted not one but 16 watches during his own tenure, including the famous £16,000 job during the World Cup in Brazil (since returned). They might see an English FA that couldn’t even make a decent fist of de facto bribery, offering up 24 Mulberry handbags to Fifa committee members’ wives during its own bid process and thereby allowing even Jack Warner to claim the moral high ground by returning his unwanted bag with the disdain of a man palming off a Christmas cracker prize.

In this context the principles Blatter preached, if not the practice – global reach, inclusion – have a great deal to commend them. This is a moment for tact and conciliation, for reaching out. What the English FA appears to be offering is a dunk in the gunge tank, Timmy Mallet leaping up on Radio 4 and battering the rest of the world over the head with his foam-rubber hammer of righteousness.

What comes next will be the key. Russia will host the 2018 World Cup whatever any investigations uncover about the process involved. Qatar looks more vulnerable. First because of the human cost of its construction, and second because of the basic absurdity of staging a tournament there in the first place.

And yet football will go on either side of Qatar, as will Fifa in whatever shape can be crafted. If Dyke really has to say something it should be to announce England has no interest at all in staging a 2022 World Cup, and the FA believes the tournament should stay in that region whatever the outcome. Abu Dhabi and Dubai have staged plenty of global sporting events. Failing that, give it to Malaysia or China. Give it to Ghana or Greenland. Give it to anyone who hasn’t had a World Cup, anywhere that feels under-represented, and do so with a smile. A united, uncorrupted future is what is at stake here, not four weeks of pageantry in June.

Beyond this the wider fixing of Fifa will be a matter of controlled, consensual change. Ideally independent accountants would end up logging every dollar in and every dollar out, with Fifa edged closer to the unlikely dream of an independent, utterly transparent charitable administrator. How close we get to this, with the looming fudge of a Euro-takeover, the threat of split and division, depends entirely on engagement, tact and trust. It is possible to reform Fifa and to make the world see sense on Qatar. But not simply – Greg, please – by shouting it down.

Like I told Waffiman earlier, Greg Dyke is not to be taken seriously on this issue...

Part of the issue is there're very few of them who you can point to and say 'this one is clean or worthy'. It almost has to be a greenhorn or outsider who comes in and takes charge of cleaning FIFA and forcing a cleansing of the continental confeds AND then the local country FA's. The web is complex.

On the contrary there are many clean football administrators in all the federations. The problem is that a system was created by Blatter which allowed the worst to rise to the top.

[YUJAM]

Well Nyantakyi is a member of CAF so he represents both Ghanaian and African interests. Bro, have you been living under a rock when it comes to the issues European clubs have with international friendlies, African Nations Cups, etc? All of this despite the fact their football has been greatly aided by African talents

Nyantakyi makes a very legitimate point in my opinion.

Simple. European interests!

Europe has a big image problem when it comes to how people perceive their intentions with respect to how they intend to run FIFA

This article by Nyantakyi illustrates this feeling. I also do not trust the likes of Platini and Dyke. My feeling is they will give preference to the Euro agenda, the interests of their clubs, leagues and tourneys. So the best bet for the rest of the world is to form a voting bloc to make sure such a candidate does not replace Blatter



http://africanfootball.com/news/536557/ ... e-European
Nyantakyi thinks next FIFA boss won't be European
Kwesi Nyantakyi

by Ameenu Shardow

Wednesday Jun 03, 2015. 14:44
Ghana FA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi has cast doubts over the election of an European successor to Sepp Blatter as FIFA President over policies that will ‘kill football in Africa’.

Suggestions are being made all over about the best candidate suited to replace Blatter who announced he will be stepping down as FIFA President just under a week of winning a fresh four-year mandate.

The Swiss’ decision to quit the FIFA top job has been met with varied reactions with opinions still split as to whether the move is in the right direction.

While majority of member associations in Europe are rejoicing over Blatter’s imminent departure especially following the recent bribery and corruption allegations thrown at FIFA, most member associations in Africa – who stood resolutely with Blatter during the troubled congress last week – are bitterly disappointed.

Blatter remains very popular in Africa and Asia mainly for the reforms that increasingly leveled the playing field in terms of decision making and profit sharing at FIFA as against the desire of the Europe block to have a majority say due to their superior resources.

Nyantakyi in discussing the future of FIFA on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana, cited planned reforms being championed by the Europeans that according to the GFA boss will ‘kill football in Africa’ as a reason why the next FIFA President is unlikely to come from the West.

“I don’t think a candidate from Europe can have enough votes from Africa and Asia to become the next FIFA President,” he said.

“The reforms being put forward by Europe is only meant to serve their interest and will kill football in Africa.

“For instance, they made a request to the FIFA Executive Committee to play friendly matches only amongst themselves.

“They have also increasingly restricting the number of African players in their leagues where in fact African players have played integral roles in making them attractive.

“These reforms were of course not accepted and so you can see clearly attempts being made by Europe to make them more powerful by crippling the other blocks.”

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Essien seals move to Greek champions Panathinaikos
Essien seals move to Greek champions Panathinaikos
Bwalya: 'A sad day for football'
Bwalya: 'A sad day for football'
Outgoing Blatter wishes football to be the winner

And this is what would 'kill football in Africa'?

These are the muppets who run African football!!!

Why is Nyantakyi more concerned about places for African players in the European leagues, than the loss of players to Europe by the Ghanaian league?

[txj]

The point is, should Nyantakyi not be more concerned with keeping African players in Africa to promote vibrant local leagues than ensuring places for them in European clubs to DEVELOP EUROPEAN LEAGUES?

2. Why is it important for African teams to play Europeans in friendlies?

Well Nyantakyi is a member of CAF so he represents both Ghanaian and African interests. Bro, have you been living under a rock when it comes to the issues European clubs have with international friendlies, African Nations Cups, etc? All of this despite the fact their football has been greatly aided by African talents

Nyantakyi makes a very legitimate point in my opinion.

Simple. European interests!

Europe has a big image problem when it comes to how people perceive their intentions with respect to how they intend to run FIFA

This article by Nyantakyi illustrates this feeling. I also do not trust the likes of Platini and Dyke. My feeling is they will give preference to the Euro agenda, the interests of their clubs, leagues and tourneys. So the best bet for the rest of the world is to form a voting bloc to make sure such a candidate does not replace Blatter



http://africanfootball.com/news/536557/ ... e-European
Nyantakyi thinks next FIFA boss won't be European
Kwesi Nyantakyi

by Ameenu Shardow

Wednesday Jun 03, 2015. 14:44
Ghana FA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi has cast doubts over the election of an European successor to Sepp Blatter as FIFA President over policies that will ‘kill football in Africa’.

Suggestions are being made all over about the best candidate suited to replace Blatter who announced he will be stepping down as FIFA President just under a week of winning a fresh four-year mandate.

The Swiss’ decision to quit the FIFA top job has been met with varied reactions with opinions still split as to whether the move is in the right direction.

While majority of member associations in Europe are rejoicing over Blatter’s imminent departure especially following the recent bribery and corruption allegations thrown at FIFA, most member associations in Africa – who stood resolutely with Blatter during the troubled congress last week – are bitterly disappointed.

Blatter remains very popular in Africa and Asia mainly for the reforms that increasingly leveled the playing field in terms of decision making and profit sharing at FIFA as against the desire of the Europe block to have a majority say due to their superior resources.

Nyantakyi in discussing the future of FIFA on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana, cited planned reforms being championed by the Europeans that according to the GFA boss will ‘kill football in Africa’ as a reason why the next FIFA President is unlikely to come from the West.

“I don’t think a candidate from Europe can have enough votes from Africa and Asia to become the next FIFA President,” he said.

“The reforms being put forward by Europe is only meant to serve their interest and will kill football in Africa.

“For instance, they made a request to the FIFA Executive Committee to play friendly matches only amongst themselves.

“They have also increasingly restricting the number of African players in their leagues where in fact African players have played integral roles in making them attractive.

“These reforms were of course not accepted and so you can see clearly attempts being made by Europe to make them more powerful by crippling the other blocks.”

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Essien seals move to Greek champions Panathinaikos
Essien seals move to Greek champions Panathinaikos
Bwalya: 'A sad day for football'
Bwalya: 'A sad day for football'
Outgoing Blatter wishes football to be the winner

And this is what would 'kill football in Africa'?

These are the muppets who run African football!!!

Why is Nyantakyi more concerned about places for African players in the European leagues, than the loss of players to Europe by the Ghanaian league?

[Waffiman]

Cantona: "Choosing between Blatter and Platini for FIFA presidency is like choosing ‘between the plague and cholera"

[femibyte]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/liv ... probe-live

We’ve got a press round-up of reaction to Sepp Blatter’s resignation from around the world. It’s fair to say that it’s been a mixed reaction:

Africa Blatter’s departure is a machination of western governments
United States I guess we could say for the moment, Hallelujah
Russia The Americans ... forced Blatter out. They forced him out
Asia Fifa under Blatter was no longer an arrogant Euro-centric club
Spain Blatter a victim of ‘Anglo-Saxon interests’

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Blazer admitted to taking bribes for the 1998 and 2010 bids and possibly more.
Dirty affairs.

[platinum]

I'm reading the Blazer documents. All one can do is laugh. Clean souls might be there but they're the heavy minority. Platini can't run after this. ZERO chance (not that any uefa rep would have stood a dog's chance anyway)

The guilty pleas of former top Fifa official Chuck Blazer have been detailed with the release of papers from a 2013 hearing in New York.
He says that he and others on Fifa's executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the choice of South Africa as 2010 World Cup host.
Mr Blazer says he also accepted bribes over the 1998 event.
The US has launched a wide-ranging criminal case that engulfed Fifa and led President Sepp Blatter to resign.
The US case last week indicted 14 people on charges of racketeering and money laundering. Four others had already been charged, including Mr Blazer.
The US justice department alleges they accepted bribes and kickbacks estimated at more than $150m (£97m) over a 24-year period.
Seven of the 14 were top Fifa officials who were arrested in Zurich, Switzerland, as they awaited the Fifa congress. Two were vice-presidents.
The details of Mr Blazer's guilty pleas came as prosecutors unsealed the transcript of the 2013 hearing in the Eastern New York District Court.
Mr Blazer was the second highest official in Fifa's North and Central American and Caribbean region (Concacaf) from 1990 to 2011 and also served on Fifa's executive committee between 1997 and 2013.
Mr Blazer says: "Beginning in or around 2004 and continuing through 2011, I and others on the Fifa executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa as the host nation for the 2010 World Cup."
He adds: "I and others agreed to accept bribes and kickbacks in conjunction with the broadcast and other rights to the 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2003 Gold Cups (the regional championship for national teams)."
Federal agents tracking alleged tax evasion detained Mr Blazer and he agreed to co-operate in the US investigations.
He is said to have agreed to record his colleagues using a microphone hidden in a keychain.

[bushboy]

^^^
Interesting that the bribe taking somehow all started after 1994! American sha!

[platinum]

^^^
Interesting that the bribe taking somehow all started after 1994! American sha!

And the reaction to '94 being handed to the US wasn't exactly welcoming back then by UEFA especially.

[femibyte]

^^^
Interesting that the bribe taking somehow all started after 1994! American sha!

But he has admitted taking bribes for the Gold Cup which was hosted by the US though, in all fairness. Blazer is just an ODB - Old Dirty B*stard...