FIFA Officials arrested in dawn raid inZurich
Breaking news:
ZURICH — Swiss authorities conducted an extraordinary early-morning operation here Wednesday to arrest several top soccer officials and extradite them to the United States on federal corruption charges.
As leaders of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, gathered for their annual meeting, more than a dozen plain-clothed Swiss law enforcement officials arrived unannounced at the Baur au Lac hotel, an elegant five-star property with views of the Alps and Lake Zurich. They went to the front desk to get keys and proceeded upstairs to the rooms.
The arrests were carried out peacefully, with at least two men being ushered out of the hotel without handcuffs. One FIFA official, Eduardo Li of Costa Rica, was led by the authorities from his room to a side-door exit of the hotel. He was allowed to bring his luggage, which was adorned with FIFA logos.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/sports/soccer/fifa-officials-face-corruption-charges-in-us.html?_r=0
ZURICH — Swiss authorities conducted an extraordinary early-morning operation here Wednesday to arrest several top soccer officials and extradite them to the United States on federal corruption charges.
As leaders of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, gathered for their annual meeting, more than a dozen plain-clothed Swiss law enforcement officials arrived unannounced at the Baur au Lac hotel, an elegant five-star property with views of the Alps and Lake Zurich. They went to the front desk to get keys and proceeded upstairs to the rooms.
The arrests were carried out peacefully, with at least two men being ushered out of the hotel without handcuffs. One FIFA official, Eduardo Li of Costa Rica, was led by the authorities from his room to a side-door exit of the hotel. He was allowed to bring his luggage, which was adorned with FIFA logos.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/sports/soccer/fifa-officials-face-corruption-charges-in-us.html?_r=0
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Think this is connected onto their investigation into Jack Warner which means there may be a chance some of our officials get dragged in
or maybe they have already voted...:p:)
Deals were alledgley made in the US and US banks were used to launder money.
Who knows if the next world cup will even happen, the one in Qatar, if it takes place there , no country should participate.
How has this game, the best and most played in the world, come to this state?
So we potentially have the fat cats at the top of the tree accepting bribes and allowing corruption but you can add this to the never ending list that proves football is morally bankrupt.
We have two world cups allocated under shameful circumstances .One in a country currently at war and with a low level of tolerance to minority groups and another in a farce of a place which is using migrant workers exposed to the roughest conditions imaginable. Some of them nepalese migrants banned from returnin home to mourn their loved ones lost in the recent earthquake. And the deaths of workers working in unsafe conditions for hours on end to create this sham of a tournament.
Sepp Blatter about to be reappointed AGAIN whist presiding over some of the most ridiculous events in the corporations history. This is the same man who said female players should wear shorter shorts.
Add it to the greed in our domestic game, players turning down 100K contracts while their fans struggle to get the money together to support their team away from home. We have TV deals increasing in value yet so do ticket prices. Clubs chase the short term game and fail to invest in future, young, english talent which has decreased the national team's ability to compete
Sad.
Do you want to be the person who tells Putin the World Cup in his country is not going to happen??:o:o
Give me his number:D
Not sure about that. Must be so much evidence to gather, and superb timing by the Swiss!
There are a lot of similarities between FIFA and the Mafia. It has to be the most corrupt governing body in sport (and there's a lot of competition for that title!). The whole organisation needs abolishing and replacing.
That's just how FIFA's culture has developed under Blatter: don't pay attention to anybody's rules, not even our own...just take the money.
The reason that Sepp is nowhere to be found is that he is attending a Christening today. ;-)