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This is freaking hilarious. Someone please tell me you find this just as ironically comedic as I do.
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Sepp Blatter asks Henry Kissinger to help clean up FIFA.
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PraetorianGuard
, Jun 03 2011 12:04 AM
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#2
Posted 03 June 2011 - 02:31 AM
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To be fair, the ethical standards of the Nixon White House would probably represent a bit of an improvement for FIFA.
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Posted 03 June 2011 - 12:06 PM
Katon, on 03 June 2011 - 02:31 AM, said:
To be fair, the ethical standards of the Nixon White House would probably represent a bit of an improvement for FIFA.
Brilliant! No doubt Kissinger's first advice was to blow up the tape recorder in Blatter's office.
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Posted 15 June 2011 - 08:02 AM
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Yes it's a joke. FIFA are beyond a joke. What's incredible is how they've been allowed to become a law unto themselves. FIFA, the organisation that governs world football, isn't run by football people, and it's not run for the good of football, but for the good of members of the FIFA executive.
Holding the World Cup in Qatar: also beyond a joke. A tiny country with a hostile climate, unfriendly laws, no footballing tradition, a population smaller than that of Birmingham. Platini voted for them, apparently.. Too hot in the Summer? No problem say FIFA. Let's move the World Cup. Never mind that doing so will screw up domestic leagues all over Europe. What do FIFA care? Answer they don't.
And today we have yet more proof of just how little regard FIFA have for domestic football. Fed up with the number of meaningless International friendlies? All those international breaks that disrupt the season? Well if FIFA have their way, the situation is about to get a whole lot worse. FIFA's current rules state that in season where no World Cup or European Championship takes place, there should be a total of 12 international friendlies. FIFA now intend to increase that total to 17, which if held during the season, is getting on for two internationals every month. Whichever way you look at it, it's an utterly bloody ridiculous plan. From the Guardian:
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Holding the World Cup in Qatar: also beyond a joke. A tiny country with a hostile climate, unfriendly laws, no footballing tradition, a population smaller than that of Birmingham. Platini voted for them, apparently.. Too hot in the Summer? No problem say FIFA. Let's move the World Cup. Never mind that doing so will screw up domestic leagues all over Europe. What do FIFA care? Answer they don't.
And today we have yet more proof of just how little regard FIFA have for domestic football. Fed up with the number of meaningless International friendlies? All those international breaks that disrupt the season? Well if FIFA have their way, the situation is about to get a whole lot worse. FIFA's current rules state that in season where no World Cup or European Championship takes place, there should be a total of 12 international friendlies. FIFA now intend to increase that total to 17, which if held during the season, is getting on for two internationals every month. Whichever way you look at it, it's an utterly bloody ridiculous plan. From the Guardian:
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Fifa risks war with Europe's clubs over international friendlies
• Fifa could increase number of international dates from 12 to 17
• Europe's leading clubs angry with 'ridiculous' expansion
Fifa faces fresh conflict with Europe's leading clubs over plans to introduce five more international friendly dates into the already crowded football calendar.
The world governing body is understood to have held internal discussions on the insertion of five extra friendly matches into seasons when World Cups and European Championships do not take place. It would raise the total number of international dates from 12 to 17.
Without counting potential cup replays, that would mean a player in England who was ever-present for club and country while reaching domestic and Champions League finals could be required to play 86 times in a single season.
Fifa's discussions have not included the clubs whose fixture lists will be affected by the changes and who are preparing to push back against what they consider to be a Fifa land-grab. The European Professional Football Leagues association, which groups together 30 leagues across Europe, has made Fifa's incipient plans a top agenda item for its general assembly on 8 July. The EPFL chairman is the Premier League's Sir Dave Richards.
"Fifa has been quite busy with its own internal issues, with the presidential elections," said the EPFL chief executive, Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros. "Now these have taken place we believe it is time for Fifa to move forward in discussions with the leagues. The leagues and clubs face the consequences of the decisions made at Fifa level. The national leagues are the bread and butter of football and our members represent 1,000 clubs."
The elite clubs that make up the European Clubs Association, which was born upon the disbanding of the G-14 pressure group, believe there are already too many international breaks in the fixture list. The ECA will also fight the proposals.
"It is so stupid," said a senior ECA figure from a European Cup-winning club. "Ridiculous. Does a national team need more than 12 matches a year? They want 17 matches now, with friendlies in single days. [The Uefa president] Michel Platini is going to control the media rights centrally, to the detriment of domestic clubs and leagues."
There is an assumption that the greatest net beneficiaries will be the federations of smaller European nations. They are expected to draw more income from the centralised broadcast- and sponsorship-rights deal struck last year. The ECA source also complained that this was driven through Uefa's political structures without consultation with the clubs.
Fifa denied there were firm plans to pursue a 40% increase in the amount of international football played. However, it did confirm that talks have taken place.
"The general secretaries of the six confederations sit down with Fifa's secretary general first to discuss this issue, and it is likely that a meeting will take place this coming autumn to first discuss the international match calendar beyond 2014," said a Fifa spokesman. "Any consensus that they then reach is taken forward to the executive committee for further discussion and ultimate ratification."
Neither the proposing nor the ratifying body involves any representation from the clubs or leagues. However, the spokesman added: "The views of clubs will be considered in the decision-making process, [as will the] different domestic and confederation club calendars in different parts of the world."
Fifa has often been accused of giving scant regard to clubs who employ international players. At the Fifa congress in Zurich on 1 June the deputy general secretary, Markus Kattner, gave a presentation explainingthat the World Cup generated $3.7bn for Fifa. Of this, $40m was carved out for clubs as compensation for the use of their players during the month-long tournament. It worked out as an average of $100,000 per club.
Clubs and leagues will now confront Sepp Blatter's organisation to seek a meaningful and influential place within its governance structures. "We want to be engaged in discussion in a constructive and inclusive manner," said the EPFL source.
The ECA insider summed up the mood among clubs. "We at the ECA are really fed up," he said.
• Fifa could increase number of international dates from 12 to 17
• Europe's leading clubs angry with 'ridiculous' expansion
Fifa faces fresh conflict with Europe's leading clubs over plans to introduce five more international friendly dates into the already crowded football calendar.
The world governing body is understood to have held internal discussions on the insertion of five extra friendly matches into seasons when World Cups and European Championships do not take place. It would raise the total number of international dates from 12 to 17.
Without counting potential cup replays, that would mean a player in England who was ever-present for club and country while reaching domestic and Champions League finals could be required to play 86 times in a single season.
Fifa's discussions have not included the clubs whose fixture lists will be affected by the changes and who are preparing to push back against what they consider to be a Fifa land-grab. The European Professional Football Leagues association, which groups together 30 leagues across Europe, has made Fifa's incipient plans a top agenda item for its general assembly on 8 July. The EPFL chairman is the Premier League's Sir Dave Richards.
"Fifa has been quite busy with its own internal issues, with the presidential elections," said the EPFL chief executive, Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros. "Now these have taken place we believe it is time for Fifa to move forward in discussions with the leagues. The leagues and clubs face the consequences of the decisions made at Fifa level. The national leagues are the bread and butter of football and our members represent 1,000 clubs."
The elite clubs that make up the European Clubs Association, which was born upon the disbanding of the G-14 pressure group, believe there are already too many international breaks in the fixture list. The ECA will also fight the proposals.
"It is so stupid," said a senior ECA figure from a European Cup-winning club. "Ridiculous. Does a national team need more than 12 matches a year? They want 17 matches now, with friendlies in single days. [The Uefa president] Michel Platini is going to control the media rights centrally, to the detriment of domestic clubs and leagues."
There is an assumption that the greatest net beneficiaries will be the federations of smaller European nations. They are expected to draw more income from the centralised broadcast- and sponsorship-rights deal struck last year. The ECA source also complained that this was driven through Uefa's political structures without consultation with the clubs.
Fifa denied there were firm plans to pursue a 40% increase in the amount of international football played. However, it did confirm that talks have taken place.
"The general secretaries of the six confederations sit down with Fifa's secretary general first to discuss this issue, and it is likely that a meeting will take place this coming autumn to first discuss the international match calendar beyond 2014," said a Fifa spokesman. "Any consensus that they then reach is taken forward to the executive committee for further discussion and ultimate ratification."
Neither the proposing nor the ratifying body involves any representation from the clubs or leagues. However, the spokesman added: "The views of clubs will be considered in the decision-making process, [as will the] different domestic and confederation club calendars in different parts of the world."
Fifa has often been accused of giving scant regard to clubs who employ international players. At the Fifa congress in Zurich on 1 June the deputy general secretary, Markus Kattner, gave a presentation explainingthat the World Cup generated $3.7bn for Fifa. Of this, $40m was carved out for clubs as compensation for the use of their players during the month-long tournament. It worked out as an average of $100,000 per club.
Clubs and leagues will now confront Sepp Blatter's organisation to seek a meaningful and influential place within its governance structures. "We want to be engaged in discussion in a constructive and inclusive manner," said the EPFL source.
The ECA insider summed up the mood among clubs. "We at the ECA are really fed up," he said.
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Posted 15 June 2011 - 08:59 AM
5 more friendlies? What a ridiculous idea, they really have lost the plot at a time when everyone thinks players are playing far too much. Its all about the moolah...
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