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Can Someone shed some light as to why Real Madrid would issue an official statement that they have made no offer to Juve for Pogba?

It is being reported that this is an unusual move.
 
Sepp called an emergency meeting... probably to discuss how to insulate him from all of this.  
 
Can Someone shed some light as to why Real Madrid would issue an official statement that they have made no offer to Juve for Pogba?

It is being reported that this is an unusual move.

They dont want to look as though they have missed out on a target. The public opinion is Madrid gets EVERYONE they are after.
 
So the AFC is unequivocally standing by Blatter and want the vote tomorrow as scheduled,the CAF as well 
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I wonder just how much money he's giving the confederations to keep throwing their support behind such a disgraceful and cartoonishly malignant figure for the sport.
 
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@RobHarris
Ex-Man United chief executive David Gill will reject his place on FIFA executive committee if Blatter is re-elected on Friday

Now that FIFA's in hot water, everyone's willing to step up against Sepp. 
 
Nice anti fifa spot...






John Stewart's views on fifa scandal. Waiting to hear John Oliver's rant (HBO).
 
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Great summary on how the fifa case came to pass from cnn.com. Spoiler mode because it's a long article.


[COLOR=#red]Why is the U.S. bringing down the hammer on FIFA?[/COLOR]
By Saeed Ahmed, CNN
Updated 11:55 PM ET, Wed May 27, 2015


(CNN)In recent years, FIFA has made news not just for enforcing rules on the soccer field, but also for allegedly breaking them off it.

The body that governs soccer, the most popular sport in the world, is a multibillion-dollar behemoth.

Great power, yes. Great responsibility? Not so much, critics say.

FIFA has been regularly accused of bribery and kickbacks, allegations that reached a fever pitch after it awarded Russia and Qatar the World Cup in 2018 and 2022, respectively.

Afterward, the group carried out its own internal investigation and cleared itself.

So why is the United States, a country where soccer ranks far below football and basketball in popularity, now taking top FIFA officials to court on corruption charges?

Most of the 14 people indicted aren't Americans.

But as U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch lays it out, the suspects planned their crimes in the U.S.; they used the U.S. banking system; they planned to profit through schemes that targeted the "growing U.S. market for soccer."

"This is a U.S. case," David Zirin, sports editor for The Nation magazine, said Wednesday on CNN.

In order to understand how, we'll have to take you through a journey that, as you'll see, involves Americans at all stages.

First up ...

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[COLOR=#red]Michael Garcia:[/COLOR]

The World Cup is a big deal. It comes around every four years, and when it does, it's the biggest sporting spectacle on the planet.

When FIFA awarded the 2018 games to Russia and followed that with the even more head-scratching choice of Qatar in 2022, critics and other governments cried foul. They smelled shenanigans. They wanted a transparent account of the bidding process to see if Qatar and Russia cut any corners.

FIFA brought in Michael Garcia, a onetime U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was tasked with looking into the behavior of the two nations.

He spent 19 months scrutinizing the bids to host the two tournaments.

By the time he was done, his findings stretched to 350 pages.

So what did FIFA do?

It suppressed the report, released a puny 42-page summary -- and cleared itself of any wrongdoing in November.

Garcia hit back. He labeled FIFA's findings on his report "incomplete and erroneous."

Then you have ...

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[COLOR=#red]James Comey and Loretta Lynch:[/COLOR]

As we mentioned earlier, Garcia is a former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. The guy who held that job before him? James Comey.

He's the current FBI director. And the corruption charges are a result of a three-year FBI investigation.

Then there's the second New York connection: Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

She oversaw the case in Brooklyn before she was appointed to lead the Justice Department.

But why did U.S. authorities start looking into FIFA to begin with?

When FIFA cleared itself of wrongdoing, the FBI wasn't ready to do the same.

It wanted to know whether any of the allegations of bribe-taking and kickbacks by FIFA officials took place on American soil.

Enter ...

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[COLOR=#red]Chuck Blazer[/COLOR]

Chuck Blazer, an American, was the No. 2 man in CONCACAF, the FIFA-affiliated governing body for North America and the Caribbean. The organization has its headquarters in Florida.

Blazer had found himself in a bind. He had amassed $11 million in unreported income, the IRS said, and he hadn't paid his taxes for many, many years. He was looking at some serious prison time.

He pleaded guilty in 2013 on corruption charges and became a wire-wearing informant for the feds.

He provided documents and recordings of meetings with FIFA colleagues that hinted at not-so-kosher dealings, law enforcement officials said.

That meant looking into the dealings of ...

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[COLOR=#red]CONCACAF[/COLOR]

Remember when we mentioned CONCACAF? U.S. soccer falls under that governing body.

With Blazer as a cooperating witness, American officials set out to see whether corruption touched tournaments held in the Americas.
The feds say it did.

One of the people facing charges now is Jeffrey Webb. He's a FIFA vice president; he heads CONCACAF; and he was Blazer's boss.

Webb "used his position of trust to solicit bribes from sports marketing executives," acting U.S. Attorney Kelly T. Currie of the Eastern District of New York said.

In return, they provided media, marketing and sponsorship rights to soccer matches in the Americas.

Prosecutors said those arrested accepted bribes and kickbacks totaling more than $100 million, from the early 1990s until now.

For example, $110 million in bribes changed hands in bringing Copa America, a soccer tournament usually held in South America, to the United States in 2016, Lynch said.

But can the U.S. actually go after FIFA officials?

Yes. Because it is ...

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[COLOR=#red]The United States of America:[/COLOR]

The United States brought charges against the suspects because the plots were allegedly hatched on American soil.

"According to U.S. request, these crimes were agreed and prepared in the U.S., and payments were carried out via U.S. banks," the Swiss Office of Justice said.

Prosecutors also say they think the broad reach of U.S. tax and banking regulations aid their ability to bring the charges.

In addition, U.S. authorities claim jurisdiction because the American television market, and billions paid by U.S. networks, is the largest for the World Cup.

CNN's Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz in Washington; Harry Reekie in Zurich, Switzerland; and Ralph Ellis in Atlanta contributed to this report.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/27/us/fifa-corruption-investigation-why/index.html
 
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@RobHarris

Ex-Man United chief executive David Gill will reject his place on FIFA executive committee if Blatter is re-elected on Friday

Now that FIFA's in hot water, everyone's willing to step up against Sepp. 
to be fair Gill has made remarks in the past about his disdain for Blatter/fifa
 
http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1698...ifa-franchise-to-feature-women-for-first-time

EA Sports' "FIFA 16" will include 12 women's national teams, with four U.S. stars providing motion capture for the game.

At long last, EA Sports' "FIFA" franchise is tackling women's soccer.

"FIFA 16" will be the first installment of the popular video game series to include women's national teams, EA announced Thursday, with users given 12 squads to choose from when the game is released Sept. 22 in North America.

The teams available to face each other in women's matches will be Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and the United States.

"Bringing some of the best women's players and teams in the world to our franchise is a massive event for EA Sports, and we are equally excited about bringing millions of fans a new way to play," said David Rutter, vice president of EA Sports FIFA, in a news release. "We're making sure fans get an authentic experience when playing with women's national teams thanks to our innovative player capture and reference tools, as well as the sophisticated gameplay platform which we will continue to innovate on in 'FIFA 16.'"



Nice!
 
Oliver was a "corespondent/reporter" for Jon Stewart's The Daily Show & he struck out on his own with a show on HBO.

Like our man @TomDiginson, he's a Liverpool fan.
 
I've never seen the term struck out used in a positive way :lol

Psk has officially renounced his American citizenship by doing that.
 
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^i was thinking the same

I honestly think in order to avoid offending women by this that they're going to need to do a separate rating system :lol

Actually there's no way to not offend them
 
I've never seen the term struck out used in a positive way :lol

Psk has officially renounced his American citizenship by doing that.

What are you talking about? :lol It's a fairly used idiom here in Umerica... Heard it used the other day when a long time employee left the company to start his own business.

Strike out has several definitions, one of them being "To begin a course of action or new course of action. ":lol :p
 
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I've never seen the term struck out used in a positive way :lol

Psk has officially renounced his American citizenship by doing that.

What are you talking about? :lol It's a fairly used idiom here in Umerica... Heard it used the other day when a long time employee left the company to start his own business.

Strike out has several definitions, one of them being "To begin a course of action or new course of action. ":lol :p

We sports fans b. We only know of one way to use the term strike out, and it's never good.
 
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http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1698...ifa-franchise-to-feature-women-for-first-time

EA Sports' "FIFA 16" will include 12 women's national teams, with four U.S. stars providing motion capture for the game.

At long last, EA Sports' "FIFA" franchise is tackling women's soccer.

"FIFA 16" will be the first installment of the popular video game series to include women's national teams, EA announced Thursday, with users given 12 squads to choose from when the game is released Sept. 22 in North America.

The teams available to face each other in women's matches will be Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and the United States.

"Bringing some of the best women's players and teams in the world to our franchise is a massive event for EA Sports, and we are equally excited about bringing millions of fans a new way to play," said David Rutter, vice president of EA Sports FIFA, in a news release. "We're making sure fans get an authentic experience when playing with women's national teams thanks to our innovative player capture and reference tools, as well as the sophisticated gameplay platform which we will continue to innovate on in 'FIFA 16.'"



Nice!


twerking better be one of their goal celebrations :lol
 
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