FIFA Corrupt or Not Corrupt

[GannonFan]

Depends on who you listen to. The American investigator who led an internal FIFA investigation into whether there was any improper behavior among FIFA and the resulting host countries (Russia and the Qatar) hands in his report, the retired German judge who reads it issues a summary statement that says that Russia and Qatar, and everyone at FIFA, are vindicated for no wrong doing (and then throws a bone in there that England did some shenanigans), and then the investigator responds a few hours later and says "whoa, that's not what I put in my report" (editors note - I summarized that statement). The FBI is still investigating FIFA for corruption so we'll see if anything comes from there.

Just a typical day in FIFA-land.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/30037729

[GannonFan]

Here's a great part of an article from another article...

The report noted that the Russian bid team made "only a limited amount of documents available for review".

According to the report, the Russian team hired computers that were subsequently destroyed, denying the inquiry access to email accounts.

"We were always confident that there could be nothing which would come out from this investigation," said Alexey Sorokin, the head of Russia's 2018 World Cup organising committee.

Yup, when you know you've covered your tracks and destroyed all evidence, it's easy to know that any investigation will come up empty. Gotta hand it to those Russians, they're really not apologetic over who they are and what they do.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/30044791

[dbackjon]

Corrupt. No doubt.

Laughable, really

[GannonFan]

Corrupt. No doubt.

Laughable, really

It is laughable. They can say with a straight face just the most outlandish things and they fully expect that no one will question it. Truly remarkable cognitive dissonance, on a grand scale.

[Grizalltheway]

You know an organization is fucked when they make you glad to have the NCAA.

[tribe_pride]

It's corrupt as anything but nobody (really) wants to do anything about it despite what they say. They know that FIFA will make a ton of revenue and that people will watch the games. That is all that matters to them.

The only question is if it is more or less corrupt than the IOC. Probably more so

[dbackjon]

It's corrupt as anything but nobody (really) wants to do anything about it despite what they say. They know that FIFA will make a ton of revenue and that people will watch the games. That is all that matters to them.

The only question is if it is more or less corrupt than the IOC. Probably more so

FIFA - mob bosses
IOC - greedy bankers
NCAA - compared to those two, clean as a whistle...

[CID1990]

FIFA is clean.

Just like the UN and the IOC