FIFA Vote: Sepp Blatter Re-elected after 133-73 vote. Prince Ali Withdraws
Source: FIFA TV & ESPN FC Live Stream
FIFA Vote 1st Round: Prince Ali 73, Sepp Blatter 133.
2/3 is needed in 1st round. Majority is needed in the second round.
Prince Ali Withdraws from the race.
Read more: http://www.espnfc.com/video/espn-fc-tv/86/video/2471097
US Chairman Sunil Gulati is the first person to hug Prince Ali after he withdraws. Sad outcome for FIFA and sad for soccer.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)and utterly failing. Either way.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Because they decided to award the World Cup to a country (Qatar) with 120 degree summer temps and horrible human rights records... So there's that.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)The contracts have been signed in blood.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)And no, it probably wouldn't reverse most past decisions, but who heads these organizations can have huge, even life or death, consequences.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Julia Louis Dreyfus and that McCarthy woman against Marlon Brando in a movie about yet another attempt to pretend professional sports in not a corrupt gambling racket.
You have to approve of it when these little tempests blow up and blow away so quickly though. The Mighty Wurlitzer hardly had time to get warmed up. Now we can go back to not knowing or caring who Seth Blatter is.
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)eissa
(4,238 posts)FIFA is filled with corrupt members all covering for each other. The entire organization needs a major overhaul. Doesn't look like that's going to happen any time soon.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)was because he's a socialist in a world with more have-nots than haves.
Not unbelievable at all.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)After this, I hope EUFA goes with their threatened "nuclear option" and withdraws from FIFA.