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Ian Darke was on this morning and said that there is support in Europe to break away from FIFA if necessary. That may be the only way to get away from this catastrophe. If UEFA left then CONMEBOL and CONCACAF would surely follow suit, leaving everyone else no choice but to do the same.

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QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 27, 2015 -> 07:05 PM)
If the transactions were done on American soil, using American banks, then they absolutely have jurisdiction.

 

This was the key. That's why all of the people arrested were from the Western Hemisphere, all involved with the Americas.

 

What's funny is that the Swiss won't allow extradition for tax evasion crimes, but everything else is fair game.

 

Moral of the story???? Always take your bribes in cold, hard cash.

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QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 28, 2015 -> 07:03 AM)
Ian Darke was on this morning and said that there is support in Europe to break away from FIFA if necessary. That may be the only way to get away from this catastrophe. If UEFA left then CONMEBOL and CONCACAF would surely follow suit, leaving everyone else no choice but to do the same.

 

Putting the catastrophe of the Qatar World Cup in greater context...

 

http://screamer.deadspin.com/chart-the-qat...ning-1707286095

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This is a dangerous precedent when we use a transaction through a bank to force extradition and claim jurisdiction. Imagine a CEO of an American company being extradited to Vietnam because they have a supplier there and the transaction went through a local bank. FIFA is headquartered in Switzerland, it should have been the Swiss to prosecuted.

 

 

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QUOTE (Tex @ May 28, 2015 -> 11:27 AM)
This is a dangerous precedent when we use a transaction through a bank to force extradition and claim jurisdiction. Imagine a CEO of an American company being extradited to Vietnam because they have a supplier there and the transaction went through a local bank. FIFA is headquartered in Switzerland, it should have been the Swiss to prosecuted.

 

It isn't really a precedent.

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QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ May 29, 2015 -> 11:26 AM)
Is it possible/plausible for some countries to join together and hold a soccer tournament opposite the World Cup?

 

There's a ton of money tied up in the World Cup, so you would need a massive breakaway of the major federations to make things work.

 

If UEFA (Europe's federation) split from FIFA, I think you could see South and North America follow suit. But I don't think any of that is very plausible.

 

UEFA holds a large amount of bargaining power (in my opinion) - a huge percentage of FIFA's revenue comes from World Cup TV contracts - and the largest of those are in the US/South America/Western Europe. If UEFA even threatened to walk, they could get FIFA to clean up.

 

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Is it possible/plausible for some countries to join together and hold a soccer tournament opposite the World Cup?

 

At a minimum, you would need the 8 countries who have won World Cups, plus a few other high-profile teams like the US, Netherlands, Portugal, Mexico and Japan to all agree to leave FIFA. If that happens, then FIFA is pretty much finished because the rest of the countries will have to follow.

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Blatter won again, but it was close enough where he didn't get 2/3 of the vote the first time around. (It was almost 2/3 though).

 

It'll be interesting if they'll be able to bring him down somehow.

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QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 29, 2015 -> 02:01 PM)
People do want it.

Problem is a lot of the power in terms of votes comes from those nations benefiting from said corruption. It is why it will take the power of those nations that drive the finances behind soccer to put serious pressure on FIFA and its way of life.

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JJ Cooper ‏@jjcoop36 18m18 minutes ago

So in today's FIFA news. It appears FIFA paid Ireland's soccer org €5m to make them stop arguing about a blown call http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/j...MP=share_btn_tw

 

And Germany sent arms to Saudi Arabia to land their vote in bid for the World Cup. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/j...MP=share_btn_tw … just another day in FIFA news

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 5, 2015 -> 03:23 PM)
JJ Cooper ‏@jjcoop36 18m18 minutes ago

So in today's FIFA news. It appears FIFA paid Ireland's soccer org €5m to make them stop arguing about a blown call http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/j...MP=share_btn_tw

 

And Germany sent arms to Saudi Arabia to land their vote in bid for the World Cup. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/j...MP=share_btn_tw … just another day in FIFA news

HOLY F***. They gave them weapons? WTF?

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  • 1 month later...

http://www.espnfc.com/fifa-world-cup/story...o-united-states

BERN, Switzerland -- One of the seven FIFA officials arrested in Zurich as part of a U.S. corruption probe has been extradited to the United States, Swiss authorities say.

 

Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice says the official, whom it didn't identify, was extradited on Wednesday.

 

It said in a statement on Thursday that he was handed over to three U.S. police officers who accompanied him on the flight to New York.

 

The BBC and Sky both on Wednesday reported, citing previous information, that the official in question is former CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb and that he could appear in U.S. court in Brooklyn on Thursday or later this week.

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