Qatar busted for bribing FIFA officials to ****** World Cup away from USA

[Ja Rhule]

There is a thread in Soccer forum but this is big! US might actually get a World Cup in 2022 if this gains steam and it looks like it will. Charlotte was on the list of cities that would host World Cup game. This could be huge for the US and city of Charlotte.

Here's an article from BBC if anyone cares to read.

Qatar World Cup: $5m corruption claim

Last updated 5 hours ago

What Qatar World Cup might look like

By David Bond

BBC sports editor

Fifa is facing fresh allegations of corruption over its controversial decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

The Sunday Times has obtained millions of secret documents - emails, letters and bank transfers - which it alleges are proof that the disgraced Qatari football official Mohamed Bin Hammam made payments totalling $5m to football officials in return for their support for the Qatar bid.

Qatar 2022 and Bin Hammam have always strenuously denied the former Fifa vice-president actively lobbied on their behalf in the run-up to the vote in December 2010.

But, according to emails obtained by the Sunday Times and seen by the BBC, it is now clear that Bin Hammam, 65, was lobbying on his country's behalf at least a year before the decision.

The documents also show how Bin Hammam was making payments direct to football officials in Africa to allegedly buy their support for Qatar in the contest.

Qatar strongly deny any wrongdoing and insist that Bin Hammam never had any official role supporting the bid and always acted independently from the Qatar 2022 campaign.

When approached by the Sunday Times to respond to their claims, Bin Hammam's son Hamad Al Abdulla declined to comment on his behalf.

Although the vast majority of the officials did not have a vote, the Sunday Times alleges Bin Hammam's strategy was to win a groundswell of support for the Qatari bid which would then influence the four African Fifa executive committee members who were able to take part in the election.

The Sunday Times also alleges that it has documents which prove Bin Hammam paid 305,000 Euros (£250,000) to cover the legal expenses of another former Fifa executive committee member from Oceania, Reynald Temarii.

Temarii, from Tahiti, was unable to vote in the contest as he had already been suspended by Fifa after he was caught out by a Sunday Times sting asking bogus American bid officials for money in return for his support.

But the paper now alleges that Bin Hammam provided him with financial assistance to allow him to appeal against the Fifa suspension, delaying his removal from the executive committee and blocking his deputy David Chung from voting in the 2022 election.

The paper claims that had Chung been allowed to vote he would have supported Qatar's rivals Australia. Instead there was no representative from Oceania allowed to vote, a decision which may have influenced the outcome in Qatar's favour.

The paper also makes fresh allegations about the relationship between Bin Hammam and his disgraced Fifa ally Jack Warner, from Trinidad.

Qatar was announced as the 2022 World Cup host in December 2010

Although Warner was forced to resign as a Fifa vice-president in 2011, after it was proved he helped Bin Hammam bribe Caribbean football officials in return for their support in his bid to oust the long-standing Fifa president Sepp Blatter, the paper says it has evidence which shows more than $1.6m was paid by Bin Hammam to Warner, including $450,000 in the period before the vote.

The new allegations will place Fifa under fresh pressure to re-run the vote for the 2022 World Cup, which was held in conjunction with the vote for the 2018 tournament, in which England were eliminated in the first round with just two votes.

Fifa's chief investigator Michael Garcia is already conducting a long-running inquiry into allegations of corruption and wrongdoing during the 2018/22 decisions. He is due to meet senior officials from the Qatar 2022 organising committee in Oman on Monday.

But that meeting may now have to be postponed in light of the Sunday Times revelations which have raised important new questions about the link between Bin Hammam and the successful Qatari World Cup campaign.

BBC © 2014

[Jase]

You mean the NASCAR forum

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[Niner National]

I just can't see them taking it away from Qatar at this point.  They've already done some serious construction.

 

I'd lol hard if they did though.

 

It will be a spectacular flop though. A middle eastern country isn't going to be an attractive spot for westerners, especially women.

[Ja Rhule]

I just can't see them taking it away from Qatar at this point.  They've already done some serious construction.

 

I'd lol hard if they did though.

 

It will be a spectacular flop though. A middle eastern country isn't going to be an attractive spot for westerners, especially women.

 

 

Its also supposed to be around 140 degrees during games.  Players are pissed.  Qatar will be a disaster.   

 

Brazil is a mess with multiple stadiums not finished yet with 10 days to go.  Major protests and riots on the street.  Now Qatar...  This is bad for FIFA.

[Ja Rhule]

You mean the NASCAR forum

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Considering that there is only 1 NASCAR guy vs. around 20 soccer fans... I doubt there is gonna be NASCAR forum for long.

[SCP]

That shits pronounced Cutter

[Happy Panther]

FIFA is corrupt and not pro USA. No surprise that money was exchanged.

[Happy Panther]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/sports/soccer/fixed-matches-cast-shadow-over-world-cup.html?_r=0

 

 A soccer referee named Ibrahim Chaibou walked into a bank in a small South African city carrying a bag filled with as much as $100,000 in $100 bills, according to another referee traveling with him. The deposit was so large that a bank employee gave Mr. Chaibou a gift of commemorative coins bearing the likeness of Nelson Mandela.

 

Later that night in May 2010, Mr. Chaibou refereed an exhibition match between South Africa and Guatemala in preparation for the World Cup, the world’s most popular sporting event. Even to the casual fan, his calls were suspicious — he called two penalties for hand balls even though the ball went nowhere near the players’ hands.

 

Mr. Chaibou, a native of Niger, had been chosen to work the match by a company based in Singapore that was a front for a notorious match-rigging syndicate, according to an internal, confidential report by FIFA, soccer’s world governing body.

 

 

:shrug:

[Brit-Panther]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/01/fifa-call-vote-qatar-world-cup-emails-mohamed-bin-hammam

 

Here's an article today in the British newspaper The Guardian on this topic. Seems a new vote is gathering steam. Interesting point was made that if the bribes were indeed made in US currency then somehow the Justice Dept. can take an active interest in the 'crime'.

 

Sepp Blatter is a twat in my opinion. Hates the British although its widely believed he voted for the U.S for 2022.

[cookinbrak]

There is a thread in Soccer forum but this is big! US might actually get a World Cup in 2022 if this gains steam and it looks like it will. Charlotte was on the list of cities that would host World Cup game. This could be huge for the US and city of Charlotte.

 

 

After the horror story that Brazil is going to be, I can't see any country wanting to be associated with this corrupt pile of offal.

 

[Trev_GFC]

I would love a revote but simply can't see it considering the stadia and infrastructure is half built. We could see when Qatar were bidding that it'll be a terrible idea. Blatter says "We're bringing football to new areas" well Pluto or the Antarctic have never held a World Cup before...

If the allegations are true then Blatter has to go. He should've been gone years ago. Personally I get a little feeling of the British media really have been digging around for dirt.

[PandaPancake]

And this is why soccer is just awful. In every way. It really should be banned as a sport. In Somalia they used US soldiers heads for balls. Reason enough right there to show it's a stupid sport who would kick a head? That thing is heavy

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[Porn Shop Clerk]

yeah nobody has ever used a head as a baseball either

 

i'd watch a soccer match over a baseball game any day of the week

 

[PandaPancake]

Both are sports for the feeble minded

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