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Blatter resigns but says will remain in control until successor's election
Sepp Blatter, who four days ago was re-elected for a fifth four-year term as president of FIFA, the world football's governing body announced on Tuesday in Zurich that he would resign his position and lay down his mandate at an extraordinary elective congress to be held later in the year. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGood Riddance to the corrupt scum.
Jun 03rd, 2015 - 02:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Now that UEFA will take full control of FIFA, its time for Argentina and Brazil to tell them bye-bye.
Jun 03rd, 2015 - 02:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Have fun with the “world cup”. Reminding FIFA that 85% of the world's World Cup viewers cheer for one of these two nations in the world. Go to Africa, India, Bangladesh, China, etc, during the world cup: all argie and brazilians flags.
No one will care about a Euro tourney plus Ozzer and NorthAmoland.
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Jun 03rd, 2015 - 03:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hopefully they -UEFA- will hear you and do just that. I fully agree.
Blatter has incorporated too many bad teams.
Argentina's clubs and leagues are bankrupt morally and financially. They wouldn’t last a day without Euros for players.
Not even you can deny that the world cup is Europe and South America and some noticeable exceptions elsewhere. Even I like the all European teams Euro cups they are the best thing after the world cup.
Anything else is boring and predictable to the death.
If you take out European teams from a WC football would be like Rugby WC for example.
“Go to Africa, India, Bangladesh, China, etc, during the world cup: all argie and brazilians flags.” What a pack of shit, if anything they do follow is the European clubs and strikers. But in any case they dont have the money to pay for prime football, the Europeans do so.
Well..........for now they still do at least.
Recently...in a Malaysian taxi the driver supported Man United.
Jun 03rd, 2015 - 05:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0In China our guide in Beijing supported Liverpool
In Xian the guide supported Man United
In a woodcarving village in Kenya everywhere there were scarves and posters everywhere supporting various English Premier League teams. Great rivalry between the craftsmen.
In the US my friends kids watch the Premier league show whenever its on.
Its the same all over the world.
Toby has obviously never been anywhere as has Pauly. They are simply hunched over their keyboards or Playstations, thats all they have and both therefore know nothing.
The Premier League TV deal just concluded is worth $7.5 billion. Thats why the best players in the world play for various European teams.
Blatter should head for Argyland quick. Its a safe haven for incompetents.
Getting rid of Blatter was essential. I imagine he'll be arrested in the next few weeks when all the others start to squeal. However - Platini is not the solution to FIFAs troubles. They need somebody that is competent and beyond reproach to implement a structure that is bullet proof.
Jun 03rd, 2015 - 06:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0My list of potential candidates currently within FIFA is:
1) ?
2) ??
3)???................
I actually think Michael Garcia is the best man for the job.
Agreed, Platini is as bad as Blatter.
Jun 03rd, 2015 - 07:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Times are bad for corrupt autocrats. Look out CFK.
Jun 03rd, 2015 - 09:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0@4. And crooks!
Jun 03rd, 2015 - 01:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm confused. If four months' notice must be given for a special meeting, what's wrong with October? How will FIFA get by if, as Idlehands suggests, Blatter is arrested within the next few weeks? Why not create a short list consisting of people who are provably honest? Except that's most of the population of the world. Although we can exclude argieland, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, India, Pakistan, China, North Korea, Nigeria, Ghana, most of the rest of Africa, 95% of the Middle East.
Blatter resigns but says will remain in control until successor's election
Jun 03rd, 2015 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As he frantically burns all the paperwork in his office!
The papers are having a field day with their headlines:
Jun 03rd, 2015 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Blatts all folks!”
“End of an error” (Mirror)
'ACCULE' or 'CORNERED' (France's daily sports newspaper L'Equipe)
'A LORRAR A LA FIFA' meaning simply 'FIFA IS IN MOURNING'. El Gráfico, a monthly argie sports magazine. No wrongdoing in argieland then!
“Sent off” with a picture of Blatter leaving by the back door.
“BLATTERED”
Apparently he has done it to protect his family: from him, presumably.
Does anyone else wish Andrew Jennings would turn his attention to the Kirchners?
Jun 03rd, 2015 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The FBI have all the evidence they need……that is why Blatter is running scared. I do think he should personally pay for the new election as he could easily have withdrawn from the last election saving the expense of another freebie for all the members.
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Jun 03rd, 2015 - 02:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have never watched any European football except for a few Calcio matches when I was really little.
It has nothing to do with level but with sentiment. I feel absolutely nothing for Barcelona, Juventus, Bayer Munich, or Manchester. Why do others sit there and watch such matches is beyond me. And most of those games are so artificial and there is absolutely no ambiance.
I rather learn 300 new vocabulary words sorry.
@12 Why? You don't want to converse with people
Jun 03rd, 2015 - 03:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Football does not have to be visceral. You could use your intelligence and admire skill.
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Jun 03rd, 2015 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have to have a vested fanship with a club. If not watching is pointless, and people would be better off learning and educating themselves with the millions of hours they use on watching meaningless club matches (unless it is your club)...
National side tournaments are different. Copa America I will watch, the country is on the line.
I am not joking when I tell you I may only seen 4 or 5 Messi goals from Barcelona in his entire career. Same with Tevez, or Aguero, or before the Batistuta, Milito, Higuain, etc. I have no interest in watching a meaningless match to me.
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Jun 03rd, 2015 - 03:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I completely do get what you say.
You could never support a European club per se. They don’t have that air, folklore and essence that Argentine teams and leagues have.
It is all big business, and foreign players. English and Spanish leagues are great tactical and show like football to watch, but the least thing they have in English and Spanish players.
Its impossible to have the same kind of fondness you would have to your own real LOCAL team, when its made out of 90% foreign players that are all here for the money and are dealing to move to the next highest bidder.
The rest of the world does watch European football, that is why all the sponsors, all the TV rights, all the money is there.
However take it to national team’s level, its only South America and Europe that people would be putting money to see.
That is the point here.
1 ilsen
Jun 03rd, 2015 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Good Riddance to the corrupt scum.”
Too bl**dy right!! Blatter should have been had up in court AT LEAST 4 years ago!!
It's about time he got washed away with all the other turdies!!
@12 Trolley ,
Jun 03rd, 2015 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your # 12 explains the rubbish you wrote in # 2....you don't need to be a football fanatic to enjoy a good game, but you obviously don't understand much about the game, hence your indifference. Probably a good idea to concentrate on your vocabulary...
Interestingly enough the Latin word “ Blatta” signifies “indestructible cockroach ”.
Jun 04th, 2015 - 01:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0No wonder it is a dead language.
Ha ha!
RIP Blatter!
This is the best news for football, in decades!
:-)
the fifa is not the UN. I'm waiting for fifa ban the United States forever Soccer ... hahahaha
Jun 04th, 2015 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 019. Judging how FIFA voted Blatter just a couple of days ago, Im pretty certain that FIFA is very much like the UN.
Jun 04th, 2015 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Those same African and Middleastern countries that voted for Blatter are the same ones that bitch about getting more power in the UN every time round.
Those countries have should NOT have a say whatsoever in real geopolitical affairs like the Middleastern conflicts, world economy, climate change, nothing.
premier legue concluded negotiation of 7.5 billion? British are good at doing business, but inside the field are horrible ... you can extend the same thought to united states, canada and australia ...
Jun 04th, 2015 - 10:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0to become more simple ... all Anglo-Saxon suck at football ...
to be honest. without players from other continents (south america). all European leagues would be weak ...
ps: UEFA is also corrupt ... just to remember ... hahahahaha ...
@19 Julinoasshole
Jun 04th, 2015 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You just love everything that is corrupt , don't you ? FIFA, Lullú, PT, JD & Cia....the list is just too long to carry on...
@20 CD2
you really shouldn't waste your time trying to explain the similarities between FIFA and the UN to an idiot like Julianoasshole. He just won't get it.
poor. you really believe that your country is the defender of morals and good manners? you are very innocent ... hahahahahaha ... everyone knows that there is more corrupt companies in the United States that the fifa.It is not about corruption, but about geopolitics.are trying to take the world cup of russia ...
Jun 05th, 2015 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the fifa shall show that it is different from the UN. have to nip it in the bud. banishing the United States forever football...
removing the US dollar. what to you guys have to offer to football? NOTHING !!!
jackasshole goodbye ... in a month I'm back ... hahahaha ..
@23 julianasshole,
Jun 05th, 2015 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are right.... I DO NOT think my “country is the defender of morals and good manners”... how could I ? it is Brazil.
In a month you're back ? bad news, why don't you get lost ?
é engraçado ver um idiota como vc criticando o brasil... voce deve ser daqueles idiotas alienados com complexo de vira latas que acha que tudo no brasil nao presta... acorda muleque... cresce...
Jun 05th, 2015 - 09:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0e nao vou mais perder meu tempo discutindo nesse site... tenho mais o que fazer... adeus...
@25 Juliano
Jun 06th, 2015 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Você é realmente um idiota. Se você tivesse um mínimo de capacidade para entender o que eu escrevi, veria que não estou criticando o “Brasil”, e sim esses políticos de merda, especialmente os do PT, que foderam este país.....agora, se você prefere colocar o seu rabinho no meio das pernas e fugir ao invês de responder de forma inteligente, por mim está ok, pois não posso esperar mais nada de um idiota como você, que enfia a cabeça no rabo e engole toda essa propaganda petista....basta olhar para os lados p´ra perceber que é tudo mentira.
Agora vá embora e vá brincar com os seus amiguinhos petistas....
Note to Editor : pls do not remove this text in portuguese...I feel it's the only way that the poster @ 25 will understand what's going on. Thank you.
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