Originally Posted by MaDalton (Post 20483578)

i wish they would finally arrest Blatter

Originally Posted by crockett (Post 20483686)

If everyone knows they are corrupt, then why does it take the US, whom really isn't even very involved with fifa to bring charges? Why didn't the Euro's police their own?

Guess this is payback for the Euro's singling out Lance Armstrong.. When every other cyclist was also doping..

Originally Posted by J. Falcon (Post 20483841)

You're being silly.

Deflategate doesn't even come remotely close to what's been happening forwever in FIFA. And people may dislike American Sports, but compared to FIFA they are squeaky clean. Sports in the US are closely scrutinized and I don't think outright corruption would ever be tolerated since there is way too much legitimate money to be lost for a lot of parties involved. The entire world has known FIFA is corrupt for the past 2 decades, at least.

Originally Posted by MaDalton (Post 20483920)

are comparing a not properly inflated ball to a hundreds of million $ corruption case?

Originally Posted by BFT3K (Post 20483840)

Finally, the world goes after the corrupt bankers, and starts to arrest... Huh? What? It's just soccer? Oh, nevermind...

Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks (Post 20483939)

It's because American banks were used to transport money and because American sportmarketing companies and the American soccer union Concacaf is involved... they raided them too...

Originally Posted by poncabare (Post 20484036)

fuck soccer

Originally Posted by baddog (Post 20484035)

Originally Posted by baddog (Post 20484035)

[url=http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/20/investing/ubs-foreign-exchange/]5 big banks pay $5.4 billion for rigging currencies - May. 20,

Originally Posted by RandyRandy (Post 20484429)

But as U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch lays it out, the suspects planned their crimes in the U.S.; they used the U.S. banking system; they planned to profit through schemes that targeted the "growing U.S. market for soccer."

That's the official reason given for why the US got involved.

Originally Posted by crockett (Post 20484693)

Its nice that we can arrest people involved in sporting events and bring them to justice, yet we can't arrest and bankers whom destroyed our economy.

Originally Posted by BFT3K (Post 20484043)

No arrests, and they'll probably whittle it down and/or weasel out of it, but it's something more than nothing anyway :thumbsup