What next for FIFA?
Where do we start with Joseph Sepp Blatter and FIFA? The appointment of Henry Kissinger to investigate could spell the end of his reign. Kissinger’s secretive consultancy firm tightly controlled the so-called Olympic reform process in 1999 after the catastrophic scandal in Salt Lake City. Also Kissinger worked on the failed American bid to stage the 2022 World Cup, so it could become personal between them.The big powers behind the throne, are not the FIFA members, but the Sponsors, or partners that FIFA likes to call them.Coca-Cola, Adidas, Visa and the other global brands that pay for his presidential life style and the comforts that keep his members voting for him. It does not take them long to drop people, with the many get out clauses in contracts (Wayne Rooney a case in point?).This could also be the American power grab for world football, a sport that is now globally popular, too dripping in money to be left under the control of the third-rate clowns who’ve reduced it to a daily scandal show.In Zurich last week, if the World’s Press hadn’t been so busy abusing the English and Scottish FA’s attempts to clean up FIFA they could have strolled to the nearest newsstand and bought a copy of one of the weekly newspapers Handelszeitung.According to their headlines ‘Kickbacks: Fifa blocks release of documents’. Their reporter Jean-Francois Tanda revealed that FIFA had gone to court in the canton of Zug on May 24 in a desperate attempt to stop publication of the final report by theInvestigating Magistrate. This sums up an eight-year probe into the bribes by FIFA’s top officials from the ISL marketing company. The report is sitting in the Zug prosecutor’s office. It won’t gather dust. Like usual with such a damning report, FIFA will delay things through the courts and this process could take at least 12 months maybe more.What are the sponsors saying in public? Adidas talk about ‘the negative tonality’ Coca-Cola, ‘The current allegations are distressing and bad for the sport’ McDonald’s: “We expect that the current issues will be resolved in the best interest of the game” Emirates is ‘disappointed’ as for Visa: ‘The current situation is clearly not good for the game and we ask that FIFA take all necessary steps to resolve the concerns’. Lastly Budweiser: ‘It is our expectation that FIFA will address and resolve this situation in an expedient manner, we are watching the current situation very closely and expect FIFA to resolve these issues in a right and proper manner’.THREE out of the five are all USA Companies, Kissinger will have open and direct lines of communication with ALL of these.Who else will be on this Committee? Kissinger, Johan Cruyff and the Tenor Placido Domingo. We think it will take more than ‘A Tenor’ to sort out over $100 million in bribes from a marketing company.






