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FA, Concacaf 'deeply concerned' by Gianni Infantino, FIFA's World Cup plan (www.espn.co.uk)
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The Football Association and Concacaf have both said they are "deeply concerned" by FIFA's proposed private investment plan, criticising the governing body over what they described as a lack of transparency and due process.

FIFA announced on Tuesday proposals to set up a private company to run its competitions which would have links to the extended family of U.S. President Donald Trump.

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[–] [S] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

UEFA seems to have found some balls:

UEFA is accelerating efforts to hold an emergency meeting of its 55 member associations this week, sources told ESPN, to discuss plans, including a potential World Cup boycott.

UEFA said on Tuesday that it takes the plan "extremely seriously" and that it "crosses a line that football's governing institutions should never cross".

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    UEFA and Concacaf should hold world cup tournaments alternating continents every 2 years, and just cut out FIFA altogether.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    As long as they invite everyone else. And have a plan to share power that isn’t “brazil argentina france england germany spain decide” or devolves back into FIFA, I’d say great.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Absolutely! As many teams as the regular and not steroid world cup....

    ...i would even go as far as creating tournaments for the lesser known FAs on the 'off year' to do a tournament for the top teams to be included in the world Cup.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Hopefully, although part of me worries that it's just posturing to try and get themselves the best deal they can out of this.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah, that's where my head is at. I hate everything about this and hope UEFA stands up to stop it.

    However, we all know UEFA isn't some paragon of virtue. They are very corrupt... just not AS corrupt. The question is just how greedy UEFA is compared to how much money FIFA is willing to give up.

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    • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Abolish FIFA.

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    [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Bro, deeply? you should have stop him already! look what the clown is doing to peoples soccer! no one ever should be allowed to do that!\

    I want infantinos head on a plate!

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    • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago*

    The surreal thing is FIFA makes billions in profits. And it distributes those profits back to the FAs (who by the way usually use them to make their officials rich; it doesn’t “trickle down”).

    FIFA is rolling in money as an organisation. There is absolutely no need to sell. Especially to fucking Jared Kushner’s family my godd…

    But I guess this is what happens when Monaco, Kuweit, Lichtenstein, and Bahrain have the same voting power in FIFA as Brazil, France, Spain, and England.

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    [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    No-one ever tells us anything anyway, so why aren't we just fully outties on this one? Concacaf has been a mere afterthought for FIFA forever, so why aren't we just fully all in on fuck FIFA? I know I am

    Concacaf was only made aware of this matter through media reports and, subsequently, via a media release.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    why aren’t we just fully in on fuck FIFA

    I guess it’s because no one at any level, supporter, player and club, wants to follow through on boycotting FIFA sanctioned events.

    All this is why I don’t watch any of their events, which is anything like the World Cup and its qualifiers, the Club World Cup, because it is all I can do. I’m considering extending that to club football and conference based tournaments if I have to, hard as that is. It’s the only thing I can do and it’s all I can suggest someone does, as it obeys the principle of ‘don’t like what’s going on, don’t watch’. Everyone or enough, including clubs, nations and supporters, boycotting those FIFA events alone would be enough to change or clean up the organisation.

    Outside that if this goes ahead it’s on the nations themselves to break and form another association. FIFA does need to be reminded that it’s only the official board because its participants view it in that fashion and at any time, they can leave and form another.

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