What shall FIFA do now?

[StefanMUC]

Judging by some fellow Arab nations obviously boycotting the handball WC in Qatar next year, I'm not convinced there'd be a massive solidarity rally around Qatar.

[stryker]

That might be true but the FIFA WC is bigger and Qatar has marketed this as an Arab World Cup. If Al Sabah's comments carry weight, quite a few Arab countries would line up behind Qatar. Regardless FIFA would not want to deal with the backlash.

[Rob2012]

Germany warns Uefa may quit Fifa if World Cup report not published

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/15/fifa-uefa-world-cup-germany-football?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[StefanMUC]

Germany warns Uefa may quit Fifa if World Cup report not published

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/15/fifa-uefa-world-cup-germany-football?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Rauball is not the German FA president, that's Wolfgang Niersbach. Rauball leads the DFL (the football league with its 36 clubs), I would be surprised if any DFB official would go as far in their reactions.

[Rob2012]

Ah, that puts a different complexion on it then. It's no secret the European leagues are scathing about FIFA and Qatar screwing things up. Still funny that FIFA declared "closure" with Eckhart's report summary and they're now in an even bigger quagmire than before.

[zekekelso]

Just a reminder that the Muslim world isn't a homogenous blob. There are thousand year old rivalries

[baron-pierreIV]

The best thing Michael Garcia can do right now is publish his findings independently. Heck write a book about it and go on a book tour. He needs to get his findings into the public domain.

I'd let him do an Addendum in my book!!!

[StefanMUC]

This article here however should be a real concern for FIFA:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/584553dc-6c12-11e4-b1e6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3J9atqtU0

If the EU tackles the way media rights are sold, there'll be money lost, the last thing Blatter wants.

On a different level, it would be fun to see certain anti-EU voice(s) on here in pains for having to acknowledge evil Brussels is attacking evil Sepp.

[Rob2012]

After an unparalleled week of Fifa farce, don't miss tomorrow's Sunday Times for yet more fun from the #FifaFiles

https://twitter.com/heidiblakeST

[Rob2012]

And here's what will be revealed...

Qatari football boss offered secret vote-rigging deal to Eng2018. New evidence blows hole in claim Mohd Bin Hammam had no role in #Qatar2022

Messages in #FifaFiles reveal Bin Hammam aides discussed his vote-rigging ploys & hailed him as a "hero" for bringing World Cup to Qatar

#FifaFiles reveal how Bin Hammam's staff went into shredding frenzy to destroy all evidence from the two years before #Qatar2022 vote

Fifa investigator spurned evidence from 2 England 2018 bid officials that Bin Hammam was brokering vote-ringing deals to benefit #Qatar2022

https://twitter.com/heidiblakeST

[arwebb]

This article here however should be a real concern for FIFA:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/584553dc-6c12-11e4-b1e6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3J9atqtU0

If the EU tackles the way media rights are sold, there'll be money lost, the last thing Blatter wants.

On a different level, it would be fun to see certain anti-EU voice(s) on here in pains for having to acknowledge evil Brussels is attacking evil Sepp.

One may say miracles do happen, on both fronts. And regarding the German League president's remarks, the very fact that a league boss in one of world football's biggest powers is opening talking of such action should be a real warning shot to FIFA. I very much doubt it will be though.

[baron-pierreIV]

Is it possible that FIFA is the way it is because of the brain cells leading the organization are all 70 and older?? I mean...start of decay????

[Tony E Loves Architecture]

Fifa just needs to get rid of Blatter as the Leader of Fifa.

[zekekelso]

Fifa just needs to get rid of Blatter as the Leader of Fifa.

Pretty sure the corruption runs deaper than one man.

[Ikarus360]

That's going to take a long time. Democratically wise is impossible, at least, since the whole FIFA and world of football is corrupted to the core, in general. Even if most of Europe is against Blatter, he only needs the vote of the other confederations (i bet he bribes CONMEBOL and CONCACAF since the two seem to support Blatter a lot) to stay in power.

The only way is to show an investigation by neutral organizations on the matter and that someone manages to leak more incriminatory info from them, then hope this will force Blatter to leave. But to be honest i think he doesn't care anymore if the whole world calls him a corrupt. In fact he's reaching the point to love to brag about it.

Whats worse is, many are already losing the faith on this sport. The credibility of football will be as big as a WWE match.

[Rob2012]

SI says that the report was far more damning of Blatter than the published summary suggests. We don't need an "independent" investigation into Blatter. He's overseen two decades of rank corruption within his inner circle. Either he was involved, in which case he should go, he didn't care, in which case he should go, or he knew but couldn't do anything about it, in which case he should go. Knowing what we know about corruption within the Exco, ther's no possible scenario which shows Blatter in a good light.

[Faster]

Judging by some fellow Arab nations obviously boycotting the handball WC in Qatar next year, I'm not convinced there'd be a massive solidarity rally around Qatar.

Agreed, there is a lot of schadenfreude right now directed at Qatar and Saudi Arabia because of IS and other Sunni-Shia clashes. The hens are coming home to roast. Almost half a century of the Saudis, and more recently Qatar exporting Wabbabi Islam, and their money for political influence across the Middle East has created a lot of enemies. I think this is one of the reasons Western leaders, especially Obama, are working so hard to bring Iran in from the cold.

My question becomes why is Switzerland's judiciary not doing anything about this? Swiss law has to have been violated.

Edited November 17, 2014 by Faster

[baron-pierreIV]

And the whole sad tragic farce continues...2 (female) whistleblowers' anonimity exposed...

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/17/whistleblowers-complain-fifa-ethics-report?CMP=ema_565

[StefanMUC]

Exposing and discrediting whistleblowers may just not have happened by accident...

Anyone seriously into football for the sake of the sport should just cut themselves from Sepp and the gang. Hopefully there will be some momentum building up in the coming weeks...

[Rob2012]

Dutch FA has demanded FIFA hands over a copy of the Garcia report, says "integrity of the sport is in question."

[Tony E Loves Architecture]

If Fifa has nothing to hide, why won't they just show everyone the report?

[arwebb]

I think you answered your own question.

[Rob2012]

The confidentiality issue kind of makes sense (yet it seems with their report summary they've even managed to bugger that up). But the fact the report summary has been disowned by the investigator, and the report itself seems flawed in so many ways, means this is just another FIFA cock-up. It's hardly THAT surprising either that the aspects which apparently criticise Blatter are kept to a minimum.

Who trusts the report, much less the FIFA approved summary? A few Qataris and....?

[Rob2012]

[ofan]

How stupid do FIFA think that we all are? I mean, aside from the Qataris of course.