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So… after the ridiculous peace prize trump is now even forcing FIFA to manipulate the game in their favour.

If Europe had any balls we would just go home and start a new organisation to replace the corrupt FIFA. We should have never even accepted to play in trumpistan

  • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    ok so who in the white house or who amongst trumps friends had a bet and calls had to be made to assist with said bet. I mean the guy literally just openly admitted to insider trading soooooo yeah this wouldn’t surprise me.

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Bends the knee? Hell, they’d open wide enough for him to go balls deep if he just asked. They’d give the rustiest of trombones…the reachiest of reach arounds. We haven’t even talked about the mahogany canoes…

    • john_t@piefed.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yeah. They even used “forcing FIFA”. Just like I “force” my landlord to give me a place to live in exchange of rent.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Most likely the real story is that money changed hands. These old corrupt bastards aren’t that complicated, even though they are secretive.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      The way things are done nowadays, the payment is done later with highly paid “opportunities” offered to the people who did him that “favor”.

      That’s how politicians who do favors to the right people end up nominated to highly paid political positions or get non-executive board memberships, gold plated consulting gigs or millionaire “speech circuit” gigs in companies of a domain they have no expertise at all in but whose top companies they helped a lot.

      During your time holding decision maker power you make “friends” with your executive, legislative or legal decision of people who are either very wealthy or hold power to nominate people to very lucrative sinecures and later they “reciprocate that friendship”. This by the way also applies inside the Private sector - for example with Fund Managers buying a lot of services from some specific Investment Banks and later, by an amazing coincidence, ending up a Traders in said banks.

      As for the public sector, all you have to do is look at the sources of income after they left of plenty of ex-POTUS or ex-EU Commission members and compare it which who they favored whilst in power.

      • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        So when my company holds a “con” and invites all kinds of useless speakers to babble for a few minutes, is that all just a scam that they’re running to pay each other.

  • nullspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I was deadass joking with a coworker that Trump would be the kind of person to call FIFA and bitch about a red card, but neither of us thought he would actually do it. I should know by now.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    If there was a world championship of corruption, FIFA and Trump would be top contenders, together with the IOC.

          • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Then this isn’t public either. There is no proof, no legal investigation, only media accusation. This is like saying the 2010 scandal wasn’t public because the bribes weren’t proven until a year later.

              • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                3 months ago

                Source?

                Edit: Found it. Sky News where Trump is bragging and said Biden was sleeping. If FIFA doesn’t admit it, we’re still pretty much in the same boat as all the others.

                The other catch with this one is it was a bad call, and the review board might have been reversing it regardless of Trump’s call. Oh well.

  • MrNesser@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    He & FIFA have basically invalidated every red card in the tournament.

    If it doesnt stick for the USA it shouldnt stick for anyone else.

    World football really needs to move away from FIFA as an organisation.

    • moustachio@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      They absolutely should, but they won’t because Europe has no backbone when it comes to FIFA.

  • myster0n@feddit.nlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    There is only one possible path we can take now, however terrible it may seem to some : we have to root for Belgium to win that match.

  • itisileclerk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    When the USA loses in the round of 16 to Belgium, Trump will call Infantino and tell him to change the score.

  • BeUnique@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    So the most corrupt president America has ever seen is “in” with the most corrupt organization that the sports world has ever seen? Shocking.