How ironic this world is. An organisation with the slogan "My Game is Fair Play" involved in a super big corruption scandal. Quite honestly, I find it disgusting. Especially after watching Panorama last night and finding out there's actually more to it than you think.
Firstly, according to Panorama, there are three more corrupted people who are about to vote on whether England should get the World Cup. Nicolas Leoz, Issa Hayatou and Ricardo Texeira all took bribes, the latter being the official organiser of the next World Cup in 2014! And Issa Hayatou is the main representative African football in FIFA. It has just been announced that he is under investigation, but no news on what will happen to the other two.
If you thought that was bad enough, brace yourself, it gets worse. According to Panorama, the ex-president of FIFA, Joao Havelange received 1 million dollars in cash, which was filtered through all sorts of bank accounts, obviously to make it hard to trace. Lastly, Jack Warner, who is a FIFA vice-president, was accused of selling World Cup tickets to touts in 2006. However, on Panorama we discover that he was at it again in 2010!
In a world filled with corruption, it really is quite depressing to see that not even an apparently friendly and innocent football organisation can't even find a way to stay clean. Still, hopefully, the future will go and show that crime doesn't pay.
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