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Little Tich

(6,171 posts) Sat May 30, 2015, 10:27 PM May 2015

Blatter shocked by US anti-corruption tactics campaign

Source: Yahoo! News / AFP

Zurich (AFP) - FIFA president Sepp Blatter expressed shock at the tactics used by the US anti-corruption investigators but insisted he was not a target.

The 79-year-old Swiss official, on the offensive after being re-elected to a new term on Friday, also slammed what he called a "hate" campaign by European football leaders

Blatter said he suspected the arrest of seven FIFA officials in Zurich on Wednesday under a US anti-corruption warrant was an attempt to "interfere with the congress" that returned him to power.

"There are signs which cannot be mistaken: the Americans were candidates for the 2022 World Cup and they lost," he told Swiss television channel RTS

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/blatter-slams-us-action-europes-hate-campaign-064234664--sow.html

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Blatter shocked by US anti-corruption tactics campaign (Original Post) Little Tich May 2015 OP

He was FIFA President and didn't know this was going on ? And he was RE-ELECTED? Lunacy! George II May 2015 #1

Fuck FIFA. The world should start a new governing body to replace FIFA. SunSeeker May 2015 #2

would that the anti corruption tactics been used on Wall Street n/t irisblue May 2015 #3

+1 daleanime May 2015 #4

+1+1 Peace Patriot May 2015 #6

oh that FIFA mafia boss is so funny. Javaman May 2015 #5

TRANSLATION: "The Americans lost the 2022 World Cup because they wouldn't out-bribe Qatar. rocktivity May 2015 #7

George II

(67,782 posts)

1. He was FIFA President and didn't know this was going on ? And he was RE-ELECTED? Lunacy!

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2015, 10:28 PM

May 2015

SunSeeker

(51,691 posts)

2. Fuck FIFA. The world should start a new governing body to replace FIFA.

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2015, 11:02 PM

May 2015

FIFA has proven it is beyond redemption.

Blatter and the entire FIFA executive commission should be in jail. They have stolen money from millions of poor soccer fans for decades, money that should have gone to build soccer stadiums in poor neighborhoods. How the hell can a "nonprofit" have $1.2 BILLION in reserves?

And no, Blatter, you ass, we're not pissed they we lost the 2022 World Cup, we're pissed that we lost it to that human rights shithole QATAR, where you can't even play soccer because it is 130 degrees in the shade. We're pissed that QATAR so OBVIOUSLY bribed its way into hosting the Cup, and you're shameless about it.