FIFA officials arrested in Switzerland on corruption charges

[crazy canuck]

And the arch-villain Blatter is not indicted? What the fuck?

He paid a sufficiently large bribe?

[FunkMonk]

Is corruption so endemic within FIFA that it will be necessary to destroy it in order to save it?

[DGuller]

I don't see how world sporting organizations can be not corrupt.  One country, one vote sounds egalitarian, but in reality most of the countries are highly corrupt.  FIFA, Olympics, FIA, all of them are corrupt to the core cesspools.

[Razgovory]

How is jurisdiction decided anyway?

Border+bomber range.

[Monoriu]

So how are these clowns chosen?

Believe it or not, HK gets our own FIFA representative that is separate from China's.  I think each of the FIFA jurisdictions decides its own rules in electing the representative.  In HK, the club owners get together and elect a representative.  Because the HK soccer league is a big money sink, the club owners consider their clubs a charity operation.  They are willing to endure the financial losses so long as the operation allows them to get famous and/or the business/political connections.  So the club owners tend to be shady businessmen.  The FIFA representative is a second generation business tycoon in HK with close links to the mainland and he has occupied the post for many decades.  He is considered incorruptible however because he is insanely rich and there is no incentive for him to take bribes.  Sorta like putting Bill Gates in charge of an NGO.

[Neil]

And the arch-villain Blatter is not indicted? What the fuck?

I hope they hit FIFA hard with the full power of the US judiciary.

I would imagine everyone will flip on Blatter, and he'll be given the death penalty.

[DontSayBanana]

How is jurisdiction decided anyway?  Is your jurisdiction basically what you claim it is while still getting other countries to honor in your extradition requests?

I gotta find a source for this, but I remember hearing a couple months ago that as long as US dollars are used in financial crimes, they can claim jurisdiction, which is a large part of the appeal of the developing Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

[jimmy olsen]

And the arch-villain Blatter is not indicted? What the fuck?

I hope they hit FIFA hard with the full power of the US judiciary.

I would imagine everyone will flip on Blatter, and he'll be given the death penalty.

He would actually deserve it. Thousands are dead in the desert because of him.

[Neil]

How is jurisdiction decided anyway?

Border+bomber range.

The king's writ runs only so far as the king's rifles?

[Neil]

And the arch-villain Blatter is not indicted? What the fuck?

I hope they hit FIFA hard with the full power of the US judiciary.

I would imagine everyone will flip on Blatter, and he'll be given the death penalty.

He would actually deserve it. Thousands are dead in the desert because of him.

He wouldn't be the first Swiss to benefit from using slave labour.

[alfred russel]

I'm torn between wanting to see Qatar host the world cup just for the "wtf" value and wanting to see how big the bribes had to get in order to choose Qatar as the host.

I guess both are technically possible.

[DGuller]

So how are these clowns chosen?

Believe it or not, HK gets our own FIFA representative that is separate from China's.  I think each of the FIFA jurisdictions decides its own rules in electing the representative.  In HK, the club owners get together and elect a representative.  Because the HK soccer league is a big money sink, the club owners consider their clubs a charity operation.  They are willing to endure the financial losses so long as the operation allows them to get famous and/or the business/political connections.  So the club owners tend to be shady businessmen.  The FIFA representative is a second generation business tycoon in HK with close links to the mainland and he has occupied the post for many decades.  He is considered incorruptible however because he is insanely rich and there is no incentive for him to take bribes.  Sorta like putting Bill Gates in charge of an NGO.

Incorruptible?  I guess that means no World Cup for Hong Kong then.

[Valmy]

The World Cup in Hong Kong? They would have to rip down the entire city just to make room.

[Syt]

Zeit.de has an article with all reasons in favor of keeping Sepp Blatter as head of FIFA (from May 2014(!):

http://www.zeit.de/sport/2014-05/sepp-blatter-fifa-korruption

Everything in favor of Sepp Blatter.

Originally he threatened to retire. Now he decided to run again for the office of FIFA President. We list all the reasons why this is good - for football and the world:

[Duque de Bragança]

The World Cup in Hong Kong? They would have to rip down the entire city just to make room.

Joint bid with Macau.