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Grondona: the only time I asked for something was for the English to return our Malvinas Islands
Julio Grondona president of Argentina’s Football Association, AFA, and FIFA Vice-president strongly denied having been bribed to support Qatar World Cup bid in 2022 and said the only time he ever asked for something was when he told the English they could have his vote “if they returned what belongs to Argentina, the Malvinas Islands”. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSounds guilty to me !
Jun 01st, 2011 - 09:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0yep, soliciting a bribe... by his own admission....
Jun 01st, 2011 - 09:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0The place to keep up to date with todays charade in Switzerland:
Jun 01st, 2011 - 09:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jun/01/fifa-presidential-election-live-blog?commentpage=last#end-of-comments
What a farce.
Jun 01st, 2011 - 10:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0What an idiot....lol.
Jun 01st, 2011 - 11:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Something else about Grondona that you may find interesting:
Jun 01st, 2011 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 02003: Julio Grondona responds to a journalist's question about referee standards in Argentina by saying: “I do not believe a Jew can ever be a referee at this level. It's hard work and, you know, Jews don't like hard work.”
His mother must be so proud.
British are bad losers and liars.
Jun 01st, 2011 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Who is going to vote for England in this world?
The Olympics are in London next year. I'm pretty sure somebody voted for that.
Jun 01st, 2011 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Olympic Committee was forced to change ..... FIFA will be forced too. After all, it needs sponsors !
Jun 01st, 2011 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Interesting that the vice-chairman immediately reverted to the old Argentine political practice of employing the Falkland islands as a diversion ..,. guilty or what ?
Not sure about guilty - it just made him look stupid.
Jun 01st, 2011 - 12:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He also seemed to admit that voting has nothing to do with the value of the bid - and admitted he can't tell the difference between the British and the Americans either.
He sounds a bit senile.
“the only time I asked for something was for the English to return our Malvinas Islands”
Jun 01st, 2011 - 01:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Translation: I did not get bribed to vote for England. I asked for a bribe to vote for England but it was a rediculous bribe and was turned down.
“FIFA will be forced too. After all, it needs sponsors !”
Jun 01st, 2011 - 01:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That, ultimately, might be where there is real power. FIFA needs money - it gets nothing from FAs - and if the sponsors threaten to pull out......
FIFA (uefa) recognizes the independent national teams of
Jun 01st, 2011 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Scotland,N.Ireland,Wales,England....(not UK national team)
for all tournaments..
may be FIFA would recognize Falkland Islands as it's independent
national team !
Geo, I think you may possibly find that the Falklands are already in a FIFA list somewhere anyway. As for Grondona - the English folk he offerred his bribe to probaly did not have a clue where or what he was talking about - the Malvinas! But it shows he is bent! Hopefully the major sponsors will pull out- the house will collapse around the old fart,s presidential ears - and the world will rebuild a new clean an open FIFA without a “blather”
Jun 01st, 2011 - 04:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ignorant fat man, they are not English, they are British, sinvergüenza este viejo chorro que junto con Maradona y Cristina se llenaron con más guita los bolsillos, FUTBOL PARA TODOS ladrones! Off with his head! OFF WITH HIS HEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAD!
Jun 01st, 2011 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Haha
Jun 01st, 2011 - 04:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now I know voting is a relatively new concept in Argentina but with such a ridiculous request this is clearly a light hearted joke. Either that or this guy is a joke himself. Hang on he is an Argie, yep he a laughing stock!
Jun 01st, 2011 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now to more important matters. 91 meters of net pay in the last RKH drill!
English sore loosers.
Jun 01st, 2011 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWD8gI9h4ks
Says Marcos the Argie who is bitter at loosing in 1982. You can't accuse us of not being magnanimous in victory though.
Jun 01st, 2011 - 04:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Care to comment on today's announcement from RKH Marcos or is it an inconvenient truth you wish to avoid?
The AFA and FIFA are the most corrupt organization in the world.
Jun 01st, 2011 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Grondana. Has he ever been anything except a w*nker? Does any Argentine understand the concept of “the truth”? Of course not. Every single one is a lying, cheating toe-rag. Anybody think there's a good reason to let Argentines exist? Of course not. Spanish rebel colonialist lying toe-rags. Could any more have a chance of being recognised as human? NO!
Jun 01st, 2011 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 21 What an old fart! Do you know that in this country are people from every race and every nationlity in the world? including English? You take care of your gastric ulcer or else you'll die. There is no difference between you and Lady Gaga., the knowledge of the world that you have is ZERO.
Jun 01st, 2011 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brits are truly ugly when they are sad. Poor clowns (with bad teeth)
Jun 01st, 2011 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Really Fido, I have never had even a filling. After the performance RKH are putting in I may get them all replaced with gold ones? Putting my money where my mouth is!
Jun 01st, 2011 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It just goes to show the level of corruption, Argentina, as an example, can’t get the Falkland’s by fighting or stealing or skulduggery, now they use football as a bargaining tool, but for multi-national Argentina [the new name] as some are offended by Argentina, as they originate from all over the world] what an excuse to alloy their own corruption, but argie to one side, this football is a disgrace and needs to be cleaned up,,
Jun 01st, 2011 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0argies are truly ugly when they are sad. Poor clowns (with bad teeth]
What a way to insult your own country lol
Fido (is that a dog's name?) really has a molar fixation.
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 03:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Interesting to note that after ignoring the UK's FA in the vote and heaping abuse on for good measure, the re-elected Chair immediately announces the sort of changes that the FA wanted.
Hey ho!
I bet many in England would've prefer to have return Malvinas to Argentina in no time in order to get the world cup.
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 04:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Return Malvinas and we'll think about it.
@27. Probably not, if we are really honest. You should read some of the negativity about hosting the Olympics. It costs billions to host such events and many people think it is not money well spent. It seems to be a vanity thing to host huge sporting events, IMO, a power trip for the few.
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0@28, Good point.
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Britain and dirty tricks? Really?
“Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin today accused England of a 'dirty tricks campaign' as England's World Cup bid gathered momentum ahead of tomorrow's crunch vote”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334313/Englands-World-Cup-bid-builds-momentum-Prince-William-Beckham-Cameron-front.html#ixzz1O853R0Sp
LOL @ Putin accusing anyone else of dirty tricks! I don't click links but I strongly suggest not reading anything in the Daily Mail. It is the paper for armchair racists and zenophobes. A typical headline there would be “Immigrants are giving us cancer and YOU are paying for it”. *rolls eyes*
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The reality is that England wanted the world cup badly.
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 05:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0David Cameron, David Beckham and principito Williams push hard for it, but Vladimir and a Sheikh from Qatar outsmart their back room deals with some pocket change.
@ 31 SHUT YOUR F*CKING SH*THOLE YOU ARE F*CKING DISGRACE!
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just another scoundrel on the FIFA list of scoundrels. However be careful FIFA The English premiership is the richest in the world and could if it wished and if pushed start a new world cup, one that sponsors who sponsor Fifa would only be to happy to sponsor leaving FIFA up the creek without a paddle. Quite a few countries are unhappy with the present set up and are just waiting in the wings for a country like England with the rich English clubs to take the lead. Its already been talked about quietly.
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@32
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 09:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oskot Salām..e.
Soccer world cup the anaesthesia of the masses and source of business for friends.
Jun 03rd, 2011 - 01:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Its not seems a soup opera of bananas countries?
With the mess in Uki Cameron only hope is to bring world cup and Olympics games to the nation in despair.
Panis et circenses (pan y circo)
But politicians and civil servants keep having fun as usual haha
Corrupted country? Who said that?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393715/Stripping-taxpayer-Civil-servants-1-300-burlesque-bar.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393715/Stripping-taxpayer-Civil-servants-1-300-burlesque-bar.html
Jees! they are all at it in Argie land
Jun 04th, 2011 - 10:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Scandal swirls over Argentine Mothers rights group
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13598824
ha ha lol what a great thread showing up the englanders in their perfect light.NOT A WORD ABOUT FIFA UNTIL RUSSIA GOT THE 2018 MUNDIAL and then ohhh my God how corrupt is FIFA what agangster is Blatter.But now the bitterness is unlimited.
Jun 04th, 2011 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Of course when speaking of FIFA corruption they completely forget about SIR STANLEY and how in 1966 Pele got more kicks in three weeks than Messi in his entire career,German ref organized for the Argentina-England quarter final and of course an Englander for Uruguay-Germany.Dear boy how could those South Americans play without anglosaxon rules.Ols Sir Stanley had agreat love for the Englanders and Afrikaaners keeping South Africa civilized as well.Of course the CBF and AFA didnt much like it and the South American/African alliance has made sure we dont have any more SIRs in lausanne
British are like this like old jealous ladies in decadence that lost her beauty.
Jun 04th, 2011 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But who cares?
British are like this like old jealous ladies in decadence that lost her beauty.
Jun 05th, 2011 - 06:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0And the Argies miss what they never had
British are like this like old jealous ladies in decadence that lost her beauty.
Jun 05th, 2011 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So why do want the Falklands and all our legitimate south Atlantic territories then? :) Jealousy?????????
Tut tut be careful what you say Nicodume..it will come back to bite you in the arse...although you seem to have ample experience from youtube in that respect haah :)
Grondona: the only time I asked for something was for the English to return our Malvinas Islands
Jun 06th, 2011 - 10:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And you wonder why the worlds ignore you,
Allow me to correct to somewhat,
England cannot return the Malvinas, because we don’t have them.
Never had them, and probably never heard of them,
But
Great Britain does have the Falkland’s islands, and as they wish to remain British, i suggest you keep on dreaming,
O gara (#)--------- What the FOOOOOK are you talking about? Can you translate that lot in to something we can all understand.
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