- Mar 30, 2004
- 14,018
- 20,807
The thing is that Spain had publicly backed the Qatar bid for exchange of their vote. The spanish have quiet a few links with Qatar. Like for example Pep Guardiola was a player there, Barcelona are sponsored by them, Rosell was said to pay off the Brazilian FA presidentInteresting stuff! Iberia+Qatar = love
So 7 out of 7 Iberia voters also voted for Qatar.
Sounds a bit like Cyprus and Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest!The thing is that Spain had publicly backed the Qatar bid for exchange of their vote. The spanish have quiet a few links with Qatar. Like for example Pep Guardiola was a player there, Barcelona are sponsored by them, Rosell was said to pay off the Brazilian FA president
Seen it all myself - first hand. But that doesn't detract from the powerful effect of this film.http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:11019010
Check out this film on the Qatar World Cup. I don't care if they move it to the Maldives or if they cancel it altogether. If they don't move it I will do whatever I can (and I'm nobody so it won't be much) to get the US Soccer Federation to boycott it. Anyone participating in that Cup will be dancing on graves. Thank god for the comparatively very less evil world of club football. Give me Spurs over international football any day of the week.
Seen it all myself - first hand. But that doesn't detract from the powerful effect of this film.
As someone has said before in this thread, there should be a widespread boycott of the potential official sponsors. Money (including pay-offs, bungs and bribery) is all that Blatter and his cronies care about.
The "investigation" is quite frankly a farce and I don't expect anything to come from it.
The investigation is due to finish on the 9th June and so clearly not enough time to investigate something this size. So qatar 2022 it is.
I won't give you a "disagree" mark but I do so very much. Blatter is the worst of the worst but he's not known as "Mr Teflon" for nothing.spanish claiming that platini allegation recently about getting qatar getting the world cup has the wrong date as it happened 3 months earlier and it wasn't about Qatar. However it was about how Platini and Bin Hammam would overthrow Sepp Blatter.
Sepp Blatter is alot of things, like naive, weak and etc. but he doesnt appear to be anywhere near as corrupt as Platini or worse than him
spanish claiming that platini allegation recently about getting qatar getting the world cup has the wrong date as it happened 3 months earlier and it wasn't about Qatar. However it was about how Platini and Bin Hammam would overthrow Sepp Blatter.
Sepp Blatter is alot of things, like naive, weak and etc. but he doesnt appear to be anywhere near as corrupt as Platini or worse than him
This World Cup is not going to happen. For moral, safety and most importantly to FIFA, financial reasons. Give it to any other country, please.
Need a big federation like Germany or England to publicly say they will boycott a World Cup in Qatar
That will focus minds and sponsors
The investigation was always going to report very little wrongdoing simply because it's FIFA doing the investigation. There needs to be a body beyond the reach of FIFA, UEFA, etc., that can carry out independent investigations into corruption and whose rulings are enforced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.