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End protests against the World Cup, “whatever money has gone has been spent or stolen already”
The grand-daughter of former FIFA president Joao Havelange has stepped into the war of words over Brazil's World Cup preparations unabashedly telling protestors angry at the tournament's massive budget to get over it because some money had already been “spent” or “stolen” or “robbed.” Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesOh shit, didn't even read the rest of this story.
May 30th, 2014 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Headlines were bad enough.
This going to go down well.
Wow!
May 30th, 2014 - 10:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oooh! The truth! Like her style!
This should kick it off!
(pun intended!)
Ferk me, must be getting desperate.
May 30th, 2014 - 11:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They brought out the bosses grand daughter, if it was not so funny, I would cry!
Am I the only one on here that finds this hilarious.
Stop whinging it's already been nicked.
Ferkin great, suppose its the same for the next one, the one, the one and the one after that!
Stuff your football, you corrupt fuckers!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Stop whinging it's already been nicked.”
May 30th, 2014 - 11:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unfortunately the most honest comment yet to emerge.
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May 31st, 2014 - 12:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh do be quiet Brasileiro. No one is interested in your ranting.
May 31st, 2014 - 12:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Here, have a biscuit (0).
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May 31st, 2014 - 12:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Some good news about another brave young lady in Brazil.
May 31st, 2014 - 01:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Joana Maranhao is, by anybody's reckoning, a remarkable young woman.
She is a world-class swimmer who represented Brazil at three consecutive Olympic Games and is one of the country's most successful and prominent female athletes.
Joana Maranhao has founded the campaign group Infancia Livre Joana retired from swimming after the last Olympic Games in London, partly because she felt she could no longer compete at the top level and partly because she has a new battle to fight.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-27645921
“In this World Cup city, kids high on drugs sell themselves for the price of a cup of coffee.
It's an ugly business that embarrasses Brazil when the country is showing itself off to the world.”
I salute her, and wish her all the best in her campaign.
Ha Ha. Joana Havelange, voice of the Brazilian Oligarchy.
May 31st, 2014 - 04:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Jealous English.
May 31st, 2014 - 05:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0England world cup 3057 coming up soon.
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May 31st, 2014 - 06:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well said Sir. I have heard that the FALKLAND ISLANDS are bidding for the world cup in 2020 when they have enough money from their natural resourses ( OIL AND FALKLAND SQUID ) So they will be SQUIDS IN. Brazil needs more daughters of the robbers to be so hypocritical.
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May 31st, 2014 - 08:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Another little doggy begging for attention.
Here's your biscuit
(0)
Enjoy!
Now off you fuck back to your hole in the ground. There's a good boy!
FIFI, like the IOC, should be scrapped and reinvented completlty. Great events like the World Cup and Olympic Games have become debased by the blatant whoring by these greedy korrupt committee members. Bring back the guillotine! Hopefully the Qatar fiasco will be the final straw and hasten FIFI's demise.
May 31st, 2014 - 08:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Please don't embarrass us in front of the worlds media, we want the world to think we are a happy cohesive people with no concerns about how the countries wealth is distributed.
May 31st, 2014 - 09:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder if we will be seeing people beaten in the street with rubber hoses just like in Russia. Haha!
FIFA corruption knows no ends....even reaching here in New Zealand, when their representative Charles Dempsey decided to take a golfing holiday rather than cast his vote for South Africa for the 2006 World Cup as instructed by the NZFA. The $100k left in a bag in the 1st class toilets at the airport helped persuade him to play golf rather than voting, so Germany won the WC. As a reward good old Charlie then got free 1st class travel to any footballing event in the world for him and his family.
May 31st, 2014 - 10:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0I admire the fact that Joana Havelange can speak so freely about the clear corruption in football and Brazil.....it's no secret, so why hush it up?
What is funny is that they gave it to Brazil in the first place... It could only have been worse if Argentina had been awarded it... Wooooow!!
May 31st, 2014 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil wants to be seen as a world player, one of the big boys, but they are building the same way as Russia and China, massively corrupt and rife poverty. Its a shame really, I thought that there were glimmers of light in Brazil but they have gone backwards.
May 31st, 2014 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well we all can rest assured that corruption does, and did play a role in these events as she clearly pointed out. Now we all can be sure to remember her statement when the next big project for athletic games is attempted..... amazing what we are told to accept by those who do not suffer the deprivations. Good luck, as she may well have provided the fuel to the fire without a thought as to how callous it sounds...it is like telling a women who was raped to shut up and stop complaining since the rape and degradation that could occur already has, and to make a good show from here on out for the others in the world.
May 31st, 2014 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are we sure she is not an argie?
May 31st, 2014 - 04:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She has the same delusions about Brazil as they have about The Dark Country.
What an awful woman.
At least she's honest about the stealing....“I'm not going to jeer it, because whatever money has gone had been spent or stolen already.” And she should know, she's part of the damned Comittee (that most likely stole it).
May 31st, 2014 - 11:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Will the PT (Fed Gov) look into it ? of course not, they've all got their pockets full of taxpayer money...
Hepatitis@9...you are really one of the most stupid people on this forum....wasn't it you, just yesterday, under a different topic, that was defending the PT and claimed that they were struggling to end the Brazilian Oligarchies ???? and here you are, one day later, contradicting yourself... get lost you stupid fart.
One wonders why she has stepped into the fray. And what her reference to the October election is trying to say other than making oblique reference, as do all the country's elite to tryingto oust the labor party, as if political corruption in Brazil was invented by this party..
Jun 02nd, 2014 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One might further wonder that if her husband and her father were seriously investigated for corruption and theft in this whole mess, exactly how well their own actions could stand up to close scrutiny.
@21, Havelange (her grandfather) was the almighty in the FIFA for years, and he stole untold amounts. Teixeira (her father), as head of the CBF (Brazilian Football Federation) also stole like hell....he was even going to candidate himself for chairmaship of FIFA when the scandals broke, and he ended up standing down and then retiring. The Brazilian Government decided to not persue any legal action, as it would be embarassing for Brazil, as well as many high ranking government officials (all from the Labour Party)...that's how things work here.
Jun 02nd, 2014 - 10:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She looks kinda hot tho'
Jun 03rd, 2014 - 12:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT8bEyuF_tJEl0A2RPDauvVglQ_c0WgN-Tjar-RecCMy0k8d_aEEA
Fair enough for admitting the robbery but she doesn't have to go home to the favela at night does she and see the shit that gets served up to the majority of poor people where a little bit of money going to the right place might make the world of difference.
Jun 03rd, 2014 - 06:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The people in the favelas should squat the stadia as a political protest to bring global attention to the corruption and inequality and exploitation in Brazil.
Jun 03rd, 2014 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well, it's a better idea than tolerating the violence of the State and the poverty inflicted by the corrupt oligarchs and those politicians that secretly suck up to them.
well . . . all you admirerd of Joana. I called this one over her position. Reported today that Daddy is being investigated for having a secret account in Monaco containing about R4$ 100 million. There wouldn't be an investigation if the account weren't recent and mighty suspicious. Others have alluded here to the possibility that dear Joana was probably a thief too. Stay tuned. As the world is learning fast the elite everywhere will go to great lengths to remain elite. As we say here in Brasil, eles sao sem vergonha.
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