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05-31-2015 , 05:18 AM

#501

florentinopeces

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Originally Posted by NhlNut

How are the representatives of each country selected?
How can the guy from Spain vote against the wishes of the Spanish federation?

The Spanish federation has been run for decades by Angel Maria Villar who makes Blatter look like a cultured and honest man.

Here he is talking about el fúrbol. If you understand Spanish it generates "vergüenza ajena".

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05-31-2015 , 12:22 PM

#502

mw828

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Jack Warner hitting back at crooked USA#1, who is trying to steal the 2015 world cup.

The Onion blew the whistle on this one.

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05-31-2015 , 02:27 PM

#503

ikestoys

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http://www.thestar.com/sports/soccer...ion-story.html

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHHA

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05-31-2015 , 02:29 PM

#504

JohnFR

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How does somebody like that become a major player in CONCACAF soccer? It boggles my mind how he can even tie his shoelaces.

Last edited by JohnFR; 05-31-2015 at 02:46 PM.

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05-31-2015 , 02:30 PM

#505

ikestoys

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tbf he's foreign, so I doubt he's reading the onion often in trinidad and tobago. Still though

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05-31-2015 , 03:02 PM

#506

Palo

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At press time, the U.S. national team was leading defending champions Germany in the World Cup’s opening match after being awarded 12 penalties in the game’s first three minutes.

Nice. I can picture Warner reading that and thinking, "Seems legit."

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06-01-2015 , 04:53 AM

#507

Cotton Hill

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Originally Posted by JohnFR

How does somebody like that become a major player in CONCACAF soccer? It boggles my mind how he can even tie his shoelaces.

He now can play the "I'm not corrupt, just really incompetent and stupid." defense though and people will buy it.

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06-01-2015 , 12:03 PM

#508

bigt2k4

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I was on vacation in Germany and eventually England when this happened and got back last night expecting to have to read 2000++ posts. I am disappointed.

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06-01-2015 , 12:11 PM

#509

sixfour

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Originally Posted by bigt2k4

I was on vacation in Germany and eventually England when this happened and got back last night expecting to have to read 2000++ posts. I am disappointed.

they'll be 2k posts when blatter gets got. right now it's just a load of "fifa bigwigs being corrupt, who knew?"

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06-01-2015 , 01:20 PM

#510

Sly Caveat

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The Onion thing is just ****ing amazing. I can't even wrap my head around it.

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06-01-2015 , 01:35 PM

#511

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06-01-2015 , 01:59 PM

#512

PartyGirlUK

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Non geoblocked link. Section starts at 9m 50s.

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06-01-2015 , 06:50 PM

#513

Consty

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Sky News Newsdesk ‏@SkyNewsBreak 16m16 minutes ago

New York Times reports #FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke is believed to be tied to the bribery case involving $10m in bank transactions

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06-01-2015 , 08:15 PM

#514

Palo

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We need a big board of FIFA's organization chart with pictures so we can mark them off "arrested", "convicted", "cooperating", "dead/missing", "fled to Qatar/Russia", and "under investigation."

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06-01-2015 , 08:18 PM

#515

SenorKeeed

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Need a FIFA playing card deck like they printed up for Iraq.

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06-02-2015 , 05:36 AM

#516

Consty

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In regards to Jerome Valcke, letter from South Africa FA to FIFA instructing $10m payment to Warner was addressed to Jerome Valcke

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06-02-2015 , 10:29 AM

#517

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FIFA's #2 starting to feel the heat

one time dealer
one time this keeps rolling in new names and eventually the whole thing crumbles.

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06-02-2015 , 10:34 AM

#518

Kneel B4 Zod

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the letter is so official that it looks weird that this is "evidence of a bribe"

but then you find out that "Diaspora Legacy Programme" doesn't actually exist...hmmm

feels like people just getting sloppy with how they cover their tracks

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06-02-2015 , 10:52 AM

#519

Big_Mick00

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FIFA have called a press conference for 5pm UK time. Journalist on Twitter not sure why. Should be lols either way

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06-02-2015 , 11:00 AM

#520

Kneel B4 Zod

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Originally Posted by Big_Mick00

FIFA have called a press conference for 5pm UK time. Journalist on Twitter not sure why. Should be lols either way

possibilities

1) they are selling out Jack Warner, who told them it was a legitimate program
2) they will claim it is a legitimate program
3) They will still claim Valcke had nothing to do with it, claim he never saw this letter
4) combo of 1+3 or combo of 2+3

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06-02-2015 , 11:19 AM

#521

BAIDS

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The German Football Association would not support a boycott of the 2018 World Cup in opposition to the way Fifa is running the game.

Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has said England would support any such action led by Uefa following Fifa head Sepp Blatter's re-election.

But German FA chief Wolfgang Niersbach, speaking ahead of a meeting of Uefa officials this week, said: "We don't want to go down the route of a boycott.

"That won't accomplish anything."

Niersbach added: "We don't want to get into a situation like with boxing where there are several parallel associations. That doesn't work."

Blatter, 79, was last week re-elected for a fifth term as the president of football's world governing body despite seven Fifa officials being arrested by the US Justice Department over allegations of corruption. Blatter himself has not been implicated.

Niersbach's comments come on the day that Blatter's top deputy Jerome Valcke denied allegations that he is the person responsible for a $10m (£6m) transfer of funds cited in the US indictment.

Swiss prosecutors have launched a separate investigation into the bidding process for the tournaments in 2018 and 2022, which will be held in Russia and Qatar respectively.

thx germany. not like you could do with a PR boost or anything.

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