FIFA election

QuincyAbeyie

So, the first round is done.

Gianni Infantino: 88 votes
Sheik Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa: 85 votes
Prince Ali bin al-Hussein: 27 votes
Jerome Champagne (what a cool name): 7 votes

If I've understood correctly, the candidates needed a third of the votes to go through to the next voting round, which means Infantino and Ebrahim al-Khalifa will go through, while those who voted for al-Hussein and Champagne will now vote for one of the other two.

It's widely assumed that most of those who voted for Prince Ali now will vote for Sheik Salman, which would make him the winner.

Big Willie

Apparently Infantino has already won.

Biggus

They should all be fucked and burned.

Tear it down and build something new.

QuincyAbeyie

Infantino won. It's what I hoped for, although I don't really know much about him either.

Klaus

Everyone seems to think it's a good appointment. There's a decent writeup on him here: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/feb/26/gianni-infantino-fifa-president

And another one here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-3465464/FIFA-votes-favour-reforms-repairing-image-ahead-electing-new-president-usher-post-Sepp-Blatter-era.html

QuincyAbeyie

Wenger thinks he's a good choice. Honestly, that's enough for me.

Biggus

Yeah why think for yourself.

This organisation is too compromised for reformation, FA's should leave to form a new one not necessarily restricted by geography, this model has failed utterly.

QuincyAbeyie

Wenger thought so too. I guess you're kind of the same person.

Biggus

He stole that idea from me.

Mirth

Bald champions league draw guy is now in charge? Jesus, how many levels of FIFA got cleared out in the past year :/

Mirth

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Wenger thinks he's a good choice. Honestly, that's enough for me.

What? After he consistently drew us with Bayern, Barcelona and Milan!

jones

Biggus wrote:
Yeah why think for yourself.

This organisation is too compromised for reformation, FA's should leave to form a new one not necessarily restricted by geography, this model has failed utterly.

The FAs are just as bad, every major European FA has been embroiled in or at least heavily linked to some corruption scandal in the last two decades. If they formed a new organisation it would be just as bad and utterly corrupt as the old one, worst case scenario we'd have parallel organisations like in boxing with FIFA World Champions, FIFO World Series winners or some other horseshit.

goon

You just needs some sound governance and control procedures, it's not that hard. The two votes yesterday seem like a good starting point.

jones

It's extremely hard to reform an institution that is as corrupted as FIFA, UEFA or the DFB. You need a revolution basically that takes all of the cadre out, not just a couple figureheads gone. Don't know much about Infantino and he doesn't seem to have the dodgy aura that crooks like Blatter had but then again how upright can you be when you've been working under a man like Platini for years.

Biggus

So basically you agree with me, what was a that superfluous stuff about some FA's being involved then?
Corrupt FA's should not be invited to join a new body until they too had reformed.
Perhaps football has to go through a period of consolidation and renewal until the time is right for a new world organisation.
One things for sure there shouldn't be any World cup in fucking Qatar.

jones

I'm talking about major FAs that would constitute the new world organisation being bent to the core themselves, it's not just related to FIFA itself. The German FA is the biggest FA in the world and its president was recently forced to step down because of a scandal that got so big that even state prosecution started doing investigations, he might even face jail time.

My point is tearing down the old overlying power structures is only worth anything in this case if you do it properly (ie fire virtually everyone who was part of Blatter's and Platini's circle) and thoroughly, that is do the same purging job for all major FAs. Chance of that happening is fuck all percent of course.

Biggus

Indeed, but thats what happenes when there is a culture of criminality from the top down, even when you are not involved yourself you see it going on all around you and think "fuck this I nay as well have a piece".

This relates to my point in the News thread that humanity is essentially fearful and greedy and this is reflected in all organisations.

Bold Tone

Mirth wrote:
Bald champions league draw guy is now in charge? Jesus, how many levels of FIFA got cleared out in the past year :/

[size=small][font=Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif] Infantino wanted a bed removed from an office space previously occupied by Sepp Blatter. The former Fifa president is understood to have been partial to an afternoon nap on occasion.[/font][/size]
[size=x-small][font=Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif]😆
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[size=small][font=Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif]In its place Infantino asked for a step machine, with an expectation one would be brought in from Fifa's on-site gymnasium.[/font][/size]
[size=small][font=Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif]Instead, officials purchased a new one with the resultant invoice[/font][/size]
:boris:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36795446

Biggus

Did it come with cocaine and hookers?