Kel Varnsen wrote:
Nonsense. UEFA is nowhere near as corrupt as the rest of FIFA.
Agreed, but I don't agree that UEFA should be allowed to break away from FIFA either. Looking at Platini alone, there's plenty in there to question the conflicts of interest that exist, for example his lobbying efforts for Qatar, his son being employed by the Quatari Foundation and his reversal of his FFP laws within two years under pressure from Qatar as well.
I have no doubt that if FIFA cease to exist, within 20 years you'll have the same issues at UEFA. The amount of money circulating in football along with the lack of transparency makes it almost certain that this will be the case. If you look at the preliminary findings of the Garcia report, the only bid that didn't have any issues with it was the Belgian and Dutch bid. The rest of them were all tainted, to one degree or another.
Fundamentally, the lack of transparency and checks on any of these international institutions will always give us to corruption - in some form or another. The fundamental structure of international football needs to be changed such that the smaller nations receive the benefit to grow, while the established FA's should still have a larger say in the matter than they do currently.
