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The decision of FIFA, the governing body of international football for the award of the World Cup in 2026 combining the US, Canada and Mexico held Morocco – considered a nation largely without restrictions, the tournament host – a great relief for many people was the love of the game. They had feared that the vote, which took place in Moscow, would provide an international embarrassment for the sport to check again. By entering the tournament in the United States, FIFA lawn actually enters its damaging rivals. Just over three years ago, he shocked the Justice Department of the United States of America, has launched the world through a pre-dawn raid in Zurich, and several international soccer officials arrested. To date, nearly four dozen people have been charged in the case of hundreds of millions of dollars in exchange for bribes. Many administrators once untouchable have been banned from the sport, including long-time FIFA president Sepp Blatter. And countless fans have been confronted with the sad realization that rampant corruption seeped into the game he loved. Their stomachs not settled this summer. After cleaning the football corrupt leadership new boss is to condemn immediately declared a “new era.” Their strong predecessors. They did a show to promise a degree of transparency to provide the radical seemed than four decades of financial black box of the sport. shiny Swiss Gianni Infantino heads: “I am proud of FIFA, his” promised chosen soon after the establishment in nearly 20 years before a new president. But if it’s a takeaway from the case of mutual corruption that the problems facing a multi-billion dollar company that has operated for decades without something similar oversight to run as terribly deep. And ‘one thing to blow up a couple of crooked officials. It is about changing a completely different, a whole corrupt culture. Take the fact that this World Cup in Russia. The defenders of the country want to host recognizes that it has a long history of football, highlighted by the great Soviet teams of the 1960s and ’70s. But many questions hanging over 2010 decision to award the tournament to the country, instead of a very eager – England who can remain unanswered, such as the FIFA attempt to investigate the elections were canceled when the supply team claiming to Russia that all its computers after the vote were destroyed. FIFA to work on the dubious principle that if there is no trace, there is no crime, Russia acquitted of all charges. As if to invite their noses to the critics, Vladimir Putin last autumn a public spectacle Blatter to attend the tournament in person – though FIFA Blatter was a six-year ban in 2016 from participating in any event. Blatter wasted little time to accept the offer in the Russian leader, and it will be interesting to see where you are sitting on critical hits. Putin expects a box to be filled with Infantino. But Infantino record is not spotless, either. Since taking office in early 2016 Infantino subject of two separate ethics complaints. One involved an account injuries expenses 10,000 putting the mattress are included for his personal use of the credit card of $FIFA; others, accusations perhaps even more disturbing is that contained Infantino interfered with attempts to investigate potential acts of corruption. His name appeared in the Book of Panama. Repeat officials on trial, at one point he defended for photo ops in Brazil flying with the national president of the country in question – a man so afraid of being arrested, refused to leave their country. The 2026 World Cup on nitpicky reasons to host and thus help the US-Canada-Mexico-bid recently, critics have Infantino accused of attempting to disqualify the offer of Morocco. Infantino, for his part, admitted that he preferred the offer of North America, but declined on balance put a finger. The problems are not limited to FIFA headquarters in Zurich or, for that matter, Moscow. Just last week, the government of Ghana has started the dissolution of the sports nation organizational body after a warrant documentary broadcast on BBC his officials showed their presidents including bribes repeated large pockets $65,000. In May, South America top football official, Alejandro Dominguez Paraguay, the US and Mexico devastated by a coveted guest appearance in the Copa América tournament the National painful offer of Qatar 2019. The decision has raised questions about the officers increasingly intimate relationship with the oil-rich nation that still work the accusation that somehow bought the allocation of voting 2022nd World Cup Soccer Official – long accustomed to being treated as if they were members of a kind of international aristocracy – how to launch underway a survey of the United States as a macabre criminal conspiracy. It is said that Americans have a bit ‘of bitterness against the sport – or has not decided to host FIFA in 2022 instead of Qatar. But there was no conspiracy. After my conversations with experts on the inner workings of the case, who have special prosecutors and agents almost eight years to build Survey FIFA America never intended to bring the world of football spent basis. They tried to simply cut the red cancer, afflicting the sport believe that the shares actually give the FIFA chances could improve in the long run. To this end, the cleaning fee has not been conceived as an end point, but a small first step. While FIFA has a series of reforms, the changes implemented so far is mocked in the fight against a deeply rooted culture of corruption half measures. His decision to award the 2026 World Cup in USA, Canada and Mexico another PR disaster averted. But three years after Zurich arrest, there is much to suggest is mostly the same old FIFA. And while it may not offer the joy of a good run of Lionel Messi, the current scandal adds another dose of drama to the show, and a certain amount of shame.
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