In December 2010, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, surrounded by celebrities and politicians from around the globe, announced that Russia and Qatar would host the next two World Cup tournaments. The news shook the world. The choice of two authoritarian regimes, with troubling human rights records and little if any soccer infrastructure, set off alarm bells. How could this happen? Among those asking the question, federal agents in the United States who decided to take a closer look at soccer’s governing body.
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Lords of Soccer - The Indictments
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We began with a bombshell in the world of soccer. The morning of May two thousand and fifteen started badly for FIFA officials, and it only got worse. The arrest began early this morning at a luxury hotel in Zurich. Switcher at last swooped shortly after dawn took several FIFA high rollers away. Six soccer officials were taken into custody at the Borlack hotel and readied for extradition to the United States. The face charges that ranged from rac
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Garin Jones
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Great episode. The break down of those announcements to Russia and Qatar was pretty funny.
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