Good morning,
last night brought the announcemnet of the host of the 2022 world cup & the 2018 world cup. i will make a major comment here. the two nations that wond the cup, where the ones who there had been large speculation about if they had been manipulating votes. Qutar and Russia will host the soccer world cup. well here are some bomb shells for you.
the technical evaluation ranked Quatar LAST out of the candidates for the 2022 world cup. the weather is unsuitable for games to be played and there is no strong soccer population or even devloping soccer population in that country. they either pay people to go watch or they play in empty stadiums. wow how bad is that!
following the bomb shells arround the voting for the Atlanta and Salt lake city olympic bids, the IOC took a long hard look at its self and cleaned out and sorted their stuff out. the process is now more open and accoutnable. but then we have the FIFA example. the media is coming out with a new revelation every day that some one in FIFA has done somthing wrong and not above board. but they have not acted. to determin the olympics, every nation votes, which means great big block voting. but it means that a country can vote for their best intrests.
but the FIFA executive is made up of a select group of 22 who represent the world game. (for more information visit http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federation/bodies/exco.html) and the head of the Asian Federation is from...... Qutar! O M G, he had influental lobying power. and of the bidding nations, who was the only nation without some one on the comitte? Australia. Which region did FIFA remove the one vote from, due to corruption allegations, whilst not fully investigating all claims prior to the vote? Oceania, which was gaurnteed to support Australia.
so i say this. FIFA you need to clean out your house. open up the bidding process, acknoedge the corrupption and the things that happend in the lead up to this vote and realise that the key decsion needs to be made be the soccer nations of the world and not your select boys club. sure, it means that the process may need more infomration and things put togehter but having a group of just 22 decide who wins, means that you leave your self further open of corruption and interfernce from outside sources.
