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World Soccer XXVI: Fun for MLS Fans and Eurosnobs Alike

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And with today's win over Hull, Arsenal fans worldwide once again celebrate St. Totteringham's Day!
 
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The perps:

Those people include nine FIFA officials:

Jeffrey Webb (Cayman Islands) - President of CONCACAF, member of FIFA Executive Committee
Eugenio Figueredo (Uruguay) - President of CONMEBOL, member of FIFA Executive Committee
Jack Warner (Trinida and Tobago) - President of CONCACAF from 1990 to 2011, former FIFA vice-president
Eduardo Li (Costa Rica) - President of the Costa Rican Football Federation, CONCACAF representative to FIFA
Julio Rocha (Nicaragua) - President of the Nicaraguan Football Federation, FIFA development officer
Costas Takkas (Cayman Islands) - Former general secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association
Rafael Esquivel (Venezuela) - President of the Venezuelan Football Federation since 1988, member of the FIFA disciplinary committee
José Maria Marin (Brazil) - President of the Brazilian Football Confederation from 2012 to 2015, president of the 2014 FIFA World Cup committee
Nicolás Leoz (Paraguay) - President of CONMEBOL from 1986 to 2013

And five sports marketing execs:

Alejandro Burzaco (Argentina) - CEO of Torneos y Competencias, which owns various sports television channels and broadcasted Argentine domestic football matches from 1992 to 2009, and the 2006 World Cup
Aaron Davidson (United States) - President of Traffic Sports USA, which organizes and handles marketing for a variety of CONCACAF soccer events, like World Cup Qualifying and the Gold Cup. Chairman of the Board of the North American Soccer League, the soccer tier below MLS
Hugo Jinkis (Argentina) - President of Full Play, which owns some sort of rights (I am unclear which ones) to hundreds of South American soccer matches
Mariano Jinkis (Argentina) - CEO of Full Play, which owns some sort of rights (I am unclear which ones) to hundreds of South American soccer matches
José Margulies (Unknown) - Margulies is somehow involved with Traffic Sports
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I hope this means the English get a shot at them next. Lord knows how often FIFA has farked them over.
 
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This could get interesting. Probably the U.S. is one of the only entities that could really take on FIFA, though Blatter and his cronies seem to always survive whatever comes at them.

Given how much of the world embraces corruption as a legit way of doing business, part of me thinks this will backfire and the U.S. will become a pariah in world soccer circles and we can kiss ever hosting a World Cup again goodbye.
 
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This could get interesting. Probably the U.S. is one of the only entities that could really take on FIFA, though Blatter and his cronies seem to always survive whatever comes at them.

Given how much of the world embraces corruption as a legit way of doing business, part of me thinks this will backfire and the U.S. will become a pariah in world soccer circles and we can kiss ever hosting a World Cup again goodbye.
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Given what has happened, I doubt this will happen. The Swiss doing the arrests is a good sign and apparently they're opening an investigation into FIFA about the 2018 and 2022 bids as well. The fact that the UK and possibly others (Australia comes to mind) are going to want a pound of flesh on this as well will help too.
 
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And the story has bumped LeBron off the ESPN.com front page...
 
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Bob Gray said:
This could get interesting. Probably the U.S. is one of the only entities that could really take on FIFA, though Blatter and his cronies seem to always survive whatever comes at them.
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It won't matter. The head guys make bail, sure... but the mid-level guys, they can't, and they can't afford to be off the streets long enough for trial and appeal. They'll cut deals that include *some* jail time. Think of all you could do with 18 months of clean streets.

Given how much of the world embraces corruption as a legit way of doing business, part of me thinks this will backfire and the U.S. will become a pariah in world soccer circles and we can kiss ever hosting a World Cup again goodbye.
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Is that really THAT much different than now?
 
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I think the key to all of this that many of you are missing is that Switzerland is helping...and that is huge
 
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With Sepp blackmailing all his competition and maybe winning another term nothing will change.
 
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I don't know about the rest of the world, but the British are heaping praise on the US right now for actually doing something top FIFA.
 
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