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on Sonntag, 31. Mai 2015 at 22:29, Einde O'Callaghan via Marxism wrote:
>> And so called "lefties" don't read the signs clearly written on the wall?
> I fear Lüko's take on the FIFA affair is a bit naive. All of what he
> says about the motives of the American authorities may be true, but the
> football establishment everywhere is incredibly corrupt and dominated by
> the national elites - we're talking about billions of dollars or euros
> with kickbacks worth millions. Blatter has in the middle of this morass
> of blatant corruption for nearly 20 years, whether he's directly got his
> snout in the trough or not.
Blatter has presided over the commercialisation of Football. But does the US
criminal justice attack this commercialisation or do they only attack money
going to Third World countries?
The attribution of the 2018 men's World FIFA Championship to Russia and the
2011 one to Qatar are being attacked -- the US had placed a bid for the 2022
championship and lost to Qatar.
There are two main issues with this "scandal":
1st: the US poses again as the sole ruler of the world, and extends its
jurisdiction into places which are not US territory. Another transgression of
their imperial arrogance.
2nd: The Big Business earning money with football rejct that FIFA's proceeds
from selling advertising, merchandising and TV rights on the FIFA events are
being distributed to all 209 Football Associations which are members of FIFA,
especially those in Third World countries, including quite small island
republics in the Caribbean and the Indian and Pacific oceans. They want the
buck to end in the coffers of the richest companies involved.
FIFA always took great pains to create exclusivity for their main
advertisement customers at their events.
I remember how the editors of a fan magazine to be published for the 2006
FIFA world championship in Germany had to photoshop the imageary of earlier
events to eliminate all appearances of companies which were not one of the main
"sponsors".
Did any of the scandal mongers attack this practice?
FIFA ordered that all stadiums had to be scrapped of their name, so that only
FIFA itself and the FIFA "sponsors" would appear in the imageary.
In Sout Africa 2010 and Brasil 2014, FIFA imposed special laws to prohibit
any merchandising around the venues which was not controlled by any of its
"sponsors".
Did any of the scandal mongers attack this practice?
Brasil had prohibited alcohol in football stadiums. But since Anheuser-Busch,
the owners of the Budweiser beer brand, was and is one of FIFA's main
"sponsors", this rule had to be suppressed for the 2014 FIFA world
championship.
Did any of the scandal mongers attack this practice?
Football has turned into a business. The entities operating the teams are
less and less the original football clubs and their members, but private
companies and their owners. Football "clubs" are being sold and resold.
Does any of the scandal mongers attack this practice?
FIFAs turnover per year (or world championship year) is about 5 thousand
millions of USD, the English "Premier League" manages more than 20 thousand
million.
Does anybody of the scandal mongers call for banning the business from the
sport?
And what changes do the scandal mongers call for?
You don't know, for sure, because they do not spell out anything concrete,
they only aim to raise emotions, and push for the hidden aim of subjugating
world football completely to Big Business. To make the "sponsors" to the real
owners, and to redirect the flow of money from Third World countries to the
coffers of the biggest capitalist businesses.
And as a political person with years of experience you should know:
Whereever a campaign against "corruption" is being pushed, you will find
reactionary aims in it. Remember Italy's "mani pulite"? The campaign to push
out the corrupt political establishment emerging out of the race for time
between the US conquest of Italy and the self-liberating partisans? What came
out of this "campaign against corruption"? The most corrupt regime, the regime
of Silvio Berlusconi.
Cheers,
Lüko Willms
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