During the lunch break a man appeared in his undershirt and with beer can in his hand on the Zurich Hallenstadion and rumbled going in Swiss German. “! Skin from all”, he shouted as soon as he caught sight of a participant of the FIFA Congress behind the security fence, “You corrupt!”
The men that there were smoking a cigarette or souvenir pictures shot, understood the language of the angry citizen not; They did not know what he wanted from them. Thumbs Up, showed an African, “Ugh!” Cried the indignant man. Then he spat on the ground.
The state in which the football’s world governing body is, brought this gentleman out of the socket, and so you had happy be he the Hallenstadion himself had no access. The events there would probably have taken him at least in the vicinity of a heart attack. For the man in the office of FIFA President there was confirmed, the case of corruption-infested organization for years has his hat on: Sepp Blatter, Swiss, 79 years old
for the vote of 209 delegates Blatter received 133 votes, his challenger Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein 73, three were invalid. On the second ballot renounced the Jordanians. That leaves Blatter, the Fifa leads since 1998, to 2019 in office. After the announcement of the election results surged big applause for Blatter to just the African and Asian association representatives celebrated the triumph of the Swiss with cheers.
The futile struggle of Prince Ali
The Jordanian Prince Ali, a member of the FIFA Executive Committee, had tried until the last second, to obtain the majority of the voters on his side: into the night before the election into with personal discussions, the Congress even with a haunting question. “I’ll build our house again, not by words but by deeds,” Ali said, promising more transparency and more democracy. He also wants to pay special attention to human rights.
“The world expects us to stand up and fight for the FIFA Now the time has arrived that we are hungry for the confidence in the world.” said Ali: “I swear that I represent our values . I will honor the game and create a real family. ” All the promises brought nothing. The official World is to further their long-term leader.
In the hours before the vote Blatter had spoken at length about the current state of Fifa. And either it is so that Sepp Blatter has not yet really understood what in the past few days – is done – again. Or he was trying to sell the world for stupid.
The culprit? “Individuals”
“The guilty when they are as guilty sentenced, these are individuals, that is not the whole organization,” said the 79 years old Swiss in view of the most sensational scandal in the history of FIFA, had run its course on Wednesday. Since marched Swiss officials in the Zurich Nobel Hotel Baur au Lac, and arrested several football officials.
Access used to be directed by the US authorities, the total of 14 defendants corruption, money laundering and organized crime accused. In addition, the Swiss prosecutor’s office had opened a criminal case in connection with the awarding of World Cups to Russia and Qatar in 2018 and 2022. The two investigations are run separately.
politicians and football officials from around the world called for the departure of then President Blatter. The European football body UEFA said briefly even a boycott of the Congress, but could not bring himself to take this step. Uefa boss Michel Platini appealed yet on Thursday in the two-person conversation to Blatter, not again to run for presidential election. He had tears in his eyes had here, the Frenchman said in the aftermath, when he reported on an epic scale of his approach.
“evolution, not revolution”
Blatter impressed neither words nor tears, he turned down the request Platini. And doubt not the right person for the job of the FIFA President to be teamed up with the Swiss on not – that made his performance significantly when Congress
” We have come together to tackle the problems this will not be possible immediately, but we will begin immediately, “Blatter said, calling the participants to the” team spirit and unity “in:” Let’s show the world that we are capable of are to lead the Fifa. Together we can do it! “
He was prepared to accept that the FIFA President will blamed for everything , this responsibility must, however – including the Executive Committee, as it were, the board – to be shared. His organization could not control the whole world, FIFA is dependent on the cooperation and assistance in the national and continental federations. There was not time for “a revolution, but an evolution,” Blatter said shortly before the vote.
Twenties remained the Congress away
Here ignored Blatter that not a groundsman of the National Stadium is charged with infringing in Vanuatu of any law and was arrested, but several of his closest confidants. One of them is Jeffrey Webb, previously president of the Association of North and Central America and the Caribbean, praised by Blatter recently for his leadership qualities. Now the man sitting by the Cayman Islands in a prison in Zurich and defends itself against his extradition to the US. According to the indictment, he collected bribes amounting to several million dollars.
evidence that the FIFA President was aware of the dirty business Webbs and other officials , have so far not emerged. In the eyes Blatter that means that concern him the crimes personally nothing. That he can not be taken into custody.
And the thing about the World Cup award after Russia and Qatar? The allegations of corruption? The enslavement of cheap labor in the desert state? Outside the door, men and women protested against the states in Qatar. Blatter dedicated to the topic only very briefly. “When two other countries would have been drawn from the envelope, we would not have these problems,” said Blatter, whose speech Qatar critic Theo Zwanziger at home followed on the sofa. The 69-year-old had decided temporarily not to travel to the Congress – although it should be adopted as a member of the Executive Committee
“I have in this. . no business event that’s all degenerated in recent days into a big circus, “Zwanziger said the” world “:” I have no more active role and no right to vote, and I do not work on shaping the future with “. Zwanziger informed Blatter in advance by letter about his absence. “What am I to there? I see no sense. This is not my world,” he said.
For the former president of the German Football missed -Bundes (DFB) and the discussions about the conflict between the Palestinian and the Israeli Football Association. Prior to the congress, the Palestinians had requested to suspend Israel as a FIFA member.
handshake between Israel and Palestina
grounds that Palestinian footballers would be hampered by the Israeli authorities in the exercise of their sport and play Israeli societies illegally occupied territory. Also drew attention to the anti-Arab sentiments of clubs like Beitar Jerusalem.
Before the Zurich Hallenstadion several dozen people for the suspension of the Israeli Football Association protested until the afternoon the Palestinians after intensive discussions behind the scenes but refrained from the original application.
Jibril Rajoub, President of the Palestinian Football Association, eventually called for a use Commission that monitors, inter alia, freedom of movement of Palestinian footballers. This proposal approved 90 percent of the delegates. Following this, Rajoub and the Israeli soccer boss Ofer Eini shook hands.
In the coming year, at the Congress in Mexico City, they wanted to again on the speak hopefully progress. The man who is the delegate then give the floor – it will be consecutive Sepp Blatter in the 18th year
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