Sepp Blatter likened to Jesus & Nelson Mandela

Sepp Blatter has been likened to Jesus, Nelson Mandela and Winston Churchill as 10 Concafaf members gave their backing to the incumbent for the Fifa presidency elections in May.

The declarations were made at the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) congress.

Dominican Republic FA president Osiris Guzman compared the Swiss to iconic historical figures, also including Moses, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.

"Membership is sending a message that we continue to support Blatter," said Concafaf president Jeffrey Webb.

Blatter is one of four candidates.

The others are ex-Portugal international Luis Figo, Dutch FA chief Michael van Praag and Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, who, along with Blatter, were all present at Thursday's congress, but did not give speeches.

The Trinidad & Tobago Football Association praised Blatter, 79, as the "father of football".

The heads of football federations from Jamaica, Haiti, Turks & Caicos, Cuba, Panama, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Puerto Rico also expressed their support for Blatter, who is seeking a fifth term in office - having been in power since 1998.

There are 41 Concacaf member associations.

The election will take place in Zurich on 30 May.

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This is what you get when you go around buying people off, ridiculous flattery, the kind Kings would get from their court

It's so obvious all of those pisspot federations are in his pocket. Can't believe this absolute **** is going to get elected again.

 

Its unanimously agreed that FIFA is corrupt from top to bottom, but its amazing that pressure from international police agencies is not put upon the Swiss to investigate them from top to bottom, bosses from big business's are put on trial for corruption on a major scale on a regular basis and the same should apply to Blatter and his cronies.

Blatter and Co swan around the world in private jets, chauffeur driven limousines, dine with royalty and stay at the best hotels.
Those at the top get perks and allowances that would make bankers look like paupers.

Its one long gravy train, but going further down the line so is UEFA and further the FA, but it needs cleaning at the top and can gradually trickle down to national FA level.

 

Ther will be no real investigation, teh guy they hired to investigate them quit because he was stonewalled at every corner.

The world cup can make or break an economy, just look at Brazil for example.

FIFA affect far more than football I guranatee you and it has immense wealth. Far too much if you ask me

 

But it should be voluntarily monitored for corruption, I know the world cup brings immense wealth to the coffers of the rich in countries holding the competition but as shown in Brazil and South Africa the poorest in society are not welcome at the global football party and are left to foot the bill when the carnival is over.

 

at the end of the day Qatar openly bought a world cup to be played in the backyards of the mega rich without a care that the heat would destroy the quality of football. Not a care..

FIFA can never be fixed

 

I have also been linked to her.

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Drama queen?

 

No ."Queen of Sheba" (king Solomon's mistress)

 

I must say that it really is a disgusting show of nepotism

For me the only way to go is to split FIFA up

The rich countries need to break from it and say stuff you and your corruption

It is the corruption in UEFA as well place there by blatter and continued by platini... And they prob never started it.... That means it'll never occur

 

Agree with MITO. The system is rotten anyway. Blatter will always have the support of all those small assoociations, are we to believe they don't get "sweetners", we know that's how it works. Some serious back scratching.

Not only that, I do believe there was a premeditated plan to wreck England's bid for the WC, the team were promised votes and the promises were reneged on. When this was brought to light, there was a tangible outbust of anti English sentiment from the south american and other federations citing "how things were when the FA ran world football", which was a long long time ago, that sentiment was obviously already there and has been a long time and I am pretty certain Blatter exploits that as part of his grip on FIFA.


The last WC in England was 66. Given the capacity location and nature of English football, it's about time another was held. It's one I would go to, traveling to Brazil Russia or Qatar was is out of the question for me. But an England WC, that would be fantastic!

FIFA and UEFA are rotten to the core, with so much money and absolutely 0 accountability, it is a prime breeding ground for corruption.

The economic implications of FIFA events are huge, that is leverage over governments like.

 

Blatter's predecessor Joao Havelange was caught with his fingers in the till but Blatter prevented him being prosecuted, deal that allowed Havelange to keep his 30 pieces of silver and escape punishment.

In 1999, De Telegraaf reported that Havelange accepted gifts of diamonds, bicycles, sports articles, Delft blue porcelain, paintings and art books, in connection with Amsterdam's failed bid for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games.[19] "I remember it very well because he had special wishes, wishes which were in conflict with the IOC laws," said Peter Kronenberg, who headed the press office of the Amsterdam Olympic Games 1992 Foundation.[19]

Collapse of ISLEdit
Disagreements between Nally and Dassler led to the foundation of International Sport and Leisure (ISL) in 1982. Dassler, French businessman Andre Guelfi, and Japanese advertising firm Dentsu established ISL to help market the rights for the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. Dassler's proximity to Havelange, and his support for Juan Antonio Samaranch, the Presidents of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) enabled ISL to win lucrative future World Cup and Olympic contracts. Following Dassler's death in 1987, and the departure of key executives, ISL overpaid for sports rights in the 1990s, and was declared bankrupt in 2001. From 1989 to 2001, ISL paid 185 million Swiss francs (CHF) in "personal commissions" to sports officials and other people involved in the marketing of sports rights. In the 2008 fraud trial that arose from the collapse of ISL, a judge referred to the commissions as "schmiergeld", a German word forbribery.

In May 2006, British investigative reporter Andrew Jennings' book Foul! The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote-Rigging and Ticket Scandals implicated Havelange in the collapse of ISL, and revealed that some football officials were urged to secretly repay the commissions they received.[20] In 2011, Jennings told Brazil's Senate that Havelange may have amassed $50 million or more in bribes, through a front company called Sicuretta.[21]

A IOC ethics committee was announced in June 2011, to investigate claims that Havelange received a bribe of $1 million in connection with ISL.[22] The investigation was prompted by the Jennings's claims in FIFA's Shame, an episode of Panorama broadcast on BBC One in May 2011.[22] Days before the ethics committee was set to happen, Havelange resigned as a member of the IOC, citing health concerns. The investigation was closed, with reports that it would have suspended the membership of Havelange for two years.[23] In November 2011, Jennings accused Havelange of being one of the people who collectively paid 5.5 million CHF to close the 2008 ISL fraud trial.[24]

In July 2012 after protracted court proceedings, Havelange and Teixeira were named as beneficiaries of bribes from ISL. A prosecutor in the canton of Zug revealed a document saying that, from 1992 to 2000, Havelange and Teixeira were paid 41m CHF by ISL.[25] Teixeira had resigned from FIFA in March 2012.[26]

At the time of this payment, commercial bribery was not a crime in Switzerland.[25] In 1997, as President of FIFA, Havelange had granted ISL FIFA's exclusive marketing rights, and exclusive TV and radio rights to the 2002 and 2006 World Cups in 1998. ISL paid FIFA 200m CHF for the marketing rights and $1.4 billion for the TV rights. After ISL's bankruptcy, its liquidators examined all payments made by the company.[25]

FIFA involvementEdit
FIFA, under the presidency of Sepp Blatter, was found to have known about the bribes, yet argued it did not need to have the money repaid. Prosecutions were mounted for alleged embezzlement against Havelange and Teixeira, but were stopped in May 2010, after Havelange and Texeira repaid CHF500,000 and CHF2.5m respectively.[25] The repayments were considered reasonable, because bribes paid before 1995 were outside the statute of limitations, and Havelange was now over 90 years old.[25]

The prosecutor also believed that Havelange and Teixeira were guilty of criminal breaches of their duties to serve FIFA as senior executives.[25] Following the release of the report, Blatter vowed to strip Havelange of his honorary presidency at the next FIFA Congress.[27]

 

I remember that whole mess.

Switzerland had no commercial bribery laws, ain't that convenient. I despise that ****ing non country anyway.

 

For supposedly a non profit organisation, don't they have billions in their coffers?

 

Blatter likened to Jesus

Crucifixions to good for 'im

 

Burying him in a cave sounds about right, so let's do the burial before the crucifixion.

 

Yep several billion. but that's for "grass roots football and development" that's why it is sitting in bank accounts apparently.
FIFA have enough cash to kit out grass roots youth clubs all over the world, but they don't and won't.

just like everything else, the money goes upwards, not downwards

 

Reminds me of the two thieves. Is Blatter on the left or right?.

 

Just don't let the ****er out again ffs

 

The whole comparison thing is the stuff of sycophants under your thumb, all clamouring to heap insidious to football praise on blatter.

 

OI!!!