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       Game over - Qatar and Putin’s FIFA friend is dead
       By: discjocke52 Date: June 3, 2015, 8:37 am
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       “There isn’t a bribe big enough for either of them to keep the
       World Cup after Sepp Blatter resigns,” says the Daily Beast.
       
       By Nico Hines for the Daily Beast:
       
       LONDON — Soccer’s World Cup plans were cast into chaos Tuesday
       as Sepp Blatter announced that he would stand down as president
       of FIFA. At a shock press conference just four days after he was
       re-elected as the most powerful man in world sports, Blatter
       asked the organization to select a new leader.
       
       Blatter’s stunning departure from soccer will reopen the battle
       to host the next two World Cups after the selection process was
       mired by allegations of bribery. The United States finished
       second in the voting for the 2022 tournament that went to Qatar,
       but widespread reports of illegal payments have raised questions
       over the legitimacy of the Gulf emirate’s hosting—to say nothing
       of its use of what’s been called slave labor.
       
       Vladimir Putin, who took a close personal interest in Russia’s
       successful 2018 bid, will also be nervous Tuesday night as his
       friend Blatter announced that he will stand down from FIFA as
       soon as a successor is elected. The process is expected to be
       complete by March 2016.
       
       The new president will be forced to hold a thorough internal
       investigation into the organization and, if FBI claims are to be
       believed, it seems likely that the World Cup bidding process for
       2018 and 2022 would be heavily criticized. That would make it
       extremely difficult not to re-evaluate who should host the
       tournaments...............
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