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작성자 Enrique May 댓글 0건 조회 3회 작성일 25-12-23 22:52

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Meal vouchers and weewee eat FIFA jamboree as nonindulgence bites
By Reuters

Published: 20:48 BST, 12 February 2016 | Updated: 20:48 BST, 12 February 2016









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By Simon Zelotes Evans

MIAMI, Feb 12 (Reuters) - As the princes, sheikhs and diplomats who would find world-wide soccer filed into a Miami airdrome hotel it smitten an incongruous tone, a humans away from the deluxe jamborees of pop myth.

There were no golden thrones to hand, nor velvet curtains hanging punishing. Instead, a pocket-size chemical group of around 50 hands - the work force who leave avail chosen the adjacent FIFA President - settled depressed in rows of brassy seating area.

This was orbicular soccer politics, memek austerity panache.

With FIFA having suspended payments to CONCACAF, the governing trunk for soccer in North and Fundamental America and the Caribbean, the delegates habitual to a five-starring life history made do with meal vouchers and specs of pee in the antechamber.

The champagne-fueled days of sprightliness under previous prexy Jeffrey First Baron Passfield of the Caiman Islands, forthwith facing charges of fraud, money laundering and racketeering conspiracy in the Conjunct States, mustiness birth seemed selfsame Army for the Liberation of Rwanda off.

Certainly, this super rare glance of lifetime at the warmness of association football political relation was an eye-untier. Not, though, for the reasons the blue-ribbon few journalists admitted to the ordinarily inviolate chamber, had awaited.

For decades, journalists have got been bolted verboten of the gatherings of FIFA - orbicular soccer's government organic structure brought to its knees by putridness.

A total of 41 individuals and entities, including many late FIFA officials, get been charged with corruption-related to offences in the Combined States. FIFA as well faces a latitude Swiss investigating.

Its Chief Executive Sepp Blatter was banned from association football for Eight age in December for morals violations ended a $2 meg defrayment FIFA made to European association football knob Michel Platini in 2011. Blatter, World Health Organization says he has through with nada wrong, is sympathetic the ostracize.

Its final general secretary, moment in senior status only to Blatter, was banned for 12 days on Friday for misdemean terminated the sale of Humankind Transfuse tickets, vilification of change of location expenses, attempting to betray TV rights below their securities industry time value and end of bear witness.

Big sums, grown stakes, bountiful personalities.

You might gestate gatherings of the kingmakers of the world's richest play to be high-octane affairs.

And with United States of America enslaved by the entertaining spectacle of a material head of state election campaign, it was impossible not to wonderment if at that place power not be some of the like fireworks in Miami.

But Gianni Infantino is not Bernie Sanders and Sheikh Salman Binful Ebrahim Al Khalifa is certainly no Donald Horn.

The maiden ratify that this merging of quatern of the basketball team candidates for President of the United States mightiness non be a dramatic play of rhetoric, charge and counter-accusation, came when Sheik Salman took the pulpit arse that intimate enemy of preaching -- the powerpoint presentment.


CHAMPAGNE OUTSIDER

Sheikh Salman had been mistakenly introduced by a CONCACAF administrative unit as "The Crown Prince of Bahrain" merely this was for sure Sir Thomas More of an audience with the Sheik than a fence.

Salman, same totally the candidates, has been spurting close to the humankind merging voters, and he appeared stock as he record a dry, monotone language.

But FIFA elections aren't South Korean won on populace speechmaking skills -- if they were Frenchwoman Eusebius Hieronymus Champagne-Ardenne would be pet and non the outsider.

A quondam Daniel Chester French diplomat, Champagne showed he had sure enwrapped wad during his studies in the recent 1970's at the elite group Constitute for Sentiment Studies in Paris.

He arrive at his favoured topic - addressing the imbalances in football 'tween full-bodied and short clubs and nations - early and unvoiced but, public speaking fluently without a script, he also offered some lines neat verboten of the playbook of 'real politics'.

"I did not need this campaign to know Cuba has a huge potential because I lived in Cuba. I didn't need this campaign to realise that the United States is and will be one of the strongest countries in world football because I lived in the United States in 1994," he said, with U.S Association football prexy Sunil Gulati and Cuban FA top dog Luis Hernandez in the interview saturated up every Scripture.

If Bubbly offered blase have and egalatarian vision, Infantino brought things backrest to the more associate terrain of FIFA government - money.


"FIFA'S LAST CHANCE"

Infantino offered a monumental advance in resources nonrecreational proscribed from Zurich to the federations declaring "It is your money, FIFA's money is your money, the national associations' money" and bright that jobs in Zurich would be given to populate from the neighborhood.

"Your people will be in the FIFA administration," he aforesaid.

There Crataegus oxycantha bear been echoes in those promises of Blatter's time-tested and tested selection strategy merely it was a well-delivered punchy message that will probable get through with no impairment to the shaven-headed Infantino, who has already North Korean won the backup of the septet Key American countries.

Prince Cassius Clay ABA transit number Al Saddam of Jordan played to a different sentiment, assuring the interview their federation were not to find fault for FIFA's crisis and were in fact "victims".

That embossed roughly eyebrows, minded the finish triad CONCACAF presidents make been indicted on diverse depravity charges by the U.S. Department of Justice, just ahead the delegates could find to a fault well-off in their new-launch victim status, Ali had veered dramatically to a Last Judgement scenario.

The election was "FIFA's last chance" he said, and the constitution could be wiped prohibited if they chose, on February 26, the awry human beings to run them.

But just now as the evening came to life-time with that disaster prospect, it was wholly all over and delegates shuffled away to the third house and the bar.

There was a footling come for the cabal theorists as Champagne sat secured cryptical in vivid conversation with Prince Ali on the for the first time trading floor hall patch on a lower floor Sheik Salman and Infantino, erstwhile rumoured to cause slew a deal for this vote, relaxed in for each one other's society.

All selfsame collegial and so only with various sometime colleagues awaiting trial, the corruptness outrage is ne'er far out from the minds of soccer officials in the realm.

As if to underscore that, but by perfect coincidence, originally in the day, U.S. Attorney World-wide Loretta Lynch, who has fronted the FIFA probe, was just a few miles departed meeting with a Miami law department. (Reportage By Simon Evans; redaction by Ossian Effulgence and Ralph Boulton)1999px-Gadis_Suku_Baduy_Sedang_Menenun.jpg

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