Sepp Blatter to resign as FIFA president despite re-election amid corruption scandal

[Goober]

Sepp Blatter to resign as FIFA president despite re-election amid corruption scandal | National Post

Now open the books for the world to see.
Independent investigators appointed to go thru the files.
Those on the board to be replaced.
Complete and open cooperation with any National/Federal Police force requesting and files.
New members elected to have the wealth and assets in public view.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter will resign from soccer’s governing body amid a widening corruption scandal and has promised to call for fresh elections to choose a successor.

Blatter, 79 was re-elected to a fifth term Friday, two days after a corruption crisis erupted and seven soccer officials were arrested in Zurich ahead of the FIFA congress.

“This mandate does not seem to be supported by everybody in the world of football,” Blatter said Tuesday at a hastily arranged news conference. “FIFA needs a profound restructuring.”

Elections are expected to take place sometime between December and March.

“I will continue to exercise my function (until the new election),” said Blatter, who looked strained and serious.

Three days earlier, Blatter was defiant and feisty in the same room when fending off questions about FIFA’s battered reputation and the chance U.S. federal agencies could seek his arrest.

 

[Walter]

 

[MHz]

I'd step down too if somebody asked me what size 'noose I wore', let alone 3 times in the same hallway.

 

[Kreskin]

"Warren Buffett just called. Said you had to quit or else Coca Cola is pulling out."

"OK, call a press conference."

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Press says charges are forthcoming against Blatter. Maybe he's gonna be too busy trying to stay free to worry about FIFA.

 

[Goober]

Problem is the corruption in endemic within FIFA. The underlings, the ones who do the documentation,the transfers, the accounts people,and so on they had to know something stunk. But I cannot blame these people as they would be out of a job.

 

[Serryah]

And I just watched John Oliver call for this very thing.

 

[Goober]

And I just watched John Oliver call for this very thing.

Yeah, he ripped him a new one. Heard he requires a colostomy bag after that ripping.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Problem is the corruption in endemic within FIFA. The underlings, the ones who do the documentation,the transfers, the accounts people,and so on they had to know something stunk. But I cannot blame these people as they would be out of a job.

Yep, when it gets to be the norm, folks get lazy about covering their tracks.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Now, let's go after the BIG criminals. Next year is an Olympic year and the IOC is even more corrupt than FIFI.

 

[Goober]

Yep, when it gets to be the norm, folks get lazy about covering their tracks.

When i was in the Army, when i needed info, I had always cultivated a good relationship with the clears. The ones that take notes at meetings, type memos and all.They had the skinny on what was coming up.
It paid off in spades.

 

[Curious Cdn]

When i was in the Army, when i needed info, I had always cultivated a good relationship with the clears. The ones that take notes at meetings, type memos and all.They had the skinny on what was coming up.
It paid off in spades.

(visualizes Radar O'Reilly with a stack of three day passes)

 

[damngrumpy]

People want to support the sport of soccer which I think is boring ans slow
I think the corruption just got worse through the years and caught up with
the organizers. I think more than one will go to jail. Now the Olympics. I
never liked the Olympics they screwed Vancouver and BC Tax Payers we
will pay for the benefit of a few like the big sponsors Both organizations are
a huge waste of time and money

 

[Curious Cdn]

People want to support the sport of soccer which I think is boring ans slow
I think the corruption just got worse through the years and caught up with
the organizers. I think more than one will go to jail. Now the Olympics. I
never liked the Olympics they screwed Vancouver and BC Tax Payers we
will pay for the benefit of a few like the big sponsors Both organizations are
a huge waste of time and money

The Olympics screwed Montreal in a major way and empaupered the place for a full generation. Serious lasting harm was done to the city from the last Olympic games that did not share the media bonanza with the host city. The IOC got fat and sassy and the Montreal taxpayer got stuck with a multibillon dollar tab.

Vancouver got off easy.

 

[bill barilko]

Ask Molson who paid for their new parking lot and the expensive fence around it-the one just off 1st Ave near the foot of the Burrard St Bridge.