Gianni Infantino Elected New FIFA President

[Dan LCFC]

I wasn't being entirely serious, but perhaps the larger point stands that such greed is now endemic within the sport, so much so that there aren't enough people actually within the game that can rid FIFA of corruption.

 

Yeah I think it dominates even a lot of 'football people' to be honest as much as we'd like to think it doesn't. I can't believe every single person who went into FIFA over the past 20 years went in a crook.

[Wymsey]

Blatter & Co awarded themselves £55m in bonuses.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36445879

[Raj]

When will the authorities just take this cretin out. It's beyond a joke. He should rot the rest of his life in jail with his cronies.

The worst thing is that FIFA is classed as a CHARITY!!!

[onekeithweller]

What new headaches may befall FIFA?

 

 

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Tom Fox | September 10, 2017

A new and potentially very damaging turn has taken place in the ongoing FIFA corruption scandal. It was reported that Miguel Maduro, the former chairman of FIFA’s governance committee said Saturday at a British parliamentary hearing that, if asked, he would provide specific accusations of top FIFA officials pressuring him to ignore regulations. It could certainly lead to some troubling questions for current FIFA’s president, Gianni Infantino.

But Maduro, a former Portuguese government minister, was fired earlier this year by Infantino only eight months into his job as the head of the governance board at the disgraced organization. Maduro claimed he was terminated for his refusal to bow to “pressure from senior officials to ignore FIFA rules when it came to the eligibility of certain powerful executives.” FIFA itself has made no comment on Maduro’s proposed testimony or indicated that it would try to block the parliamentary inquiry.

Given all the negative information that has come out about FIFA since the original arrests back in May 2015 of multiple officials for acceptance of bribery and other forms of corruption, Maduro’s testimony could be quite damaging to the organization. Indeed, The Man From FCPA would ask if this could potentially lead to more indictments by U.S. or Swiss authorities or lead to a new round of criminal investigations by countries such as Great Britain. Such information would also discredit FIFA’s claim that it has cleaned its own house and does not need greater government oversight going