The German company Adidas, collaborating with FIFA for 45 years, can refuse to sponsor football federation because of a corruption scandal that continues to grow with new details.
FIFA as a result of the scandals shaking the organization may be left without sponsors. According to media reports, Adidas, collaborating with FIFA over the last 45 years, can break off relations with the International Football Federation.
Remember, this is not the first big company, announced the possibility of a break with FIFA. Earlier hypothetical revision announced sponsorship agreements with Visa and McDonald’s.
However, the voluntary resignation of Joseph Blatter could change the company’s decision. For example, Coca-Cola and Adidas took the same rejection FIFA president enthusiastically.
«The news of the resignation of FIFA Blatter is a step towards the creation of clear standards in all matters relating to the organization,” – said in a statement on the website Adidas.
The Russian “Gazprom”, which is also a sponsor of FIFA, said that is not going to break off relations with FIFA because of a corruption scandal. At the gas giant signed a contract with the International Football Federation on 2015-2018 years.
FIFA corruption scandal every day acquires new details. No sooner had the football officials to explain the gratuitous transfer of five million dollars of the Irish Football Federation, as a fiefdom fell Blatter new charges.
If before it was about the upcoming world championships in 2018 and 2022, but now there were issues and on the previous Mundial. It turned out that South Africa won the right to host the 2010 World Cup-gotten gains.
Allegedly FIFA returned the favor a country that defeated apartheid, the defeat in the race for the 2006 World Cup. Then, in the final vote of South Africa lost to Germany only one ballot – 11 votes against 12.
The next championship in any case had to go to Africa on a rotating basis over the world during the world championships. The right to take the world championship claimed in addition to South Africa, Egypt, Morocco and joint bid Libya and Tunisia. Recent dropped out of the fight before the vote.
In the final Executive Committee FIFA South Africa received 14 votes, while Morocco – 10, and Egypt none.
However, the British The Telegraph claims that the victory was to win the Moroccan bid. This publication said the former official FIFA Ismail Bhamdzhi. The main suspect in this story is the former vice-president of FIFA, Jack Warner, according to investigators received $ 10 million from South Africa.
money he personally translated the Secretary General Jerome Valcke. FIFA claimed that millions went to support the African Diaspora in the Caribbean.
There is another version of the law enforcement agencies. Ostensibly part of the proceeds native of Trinidad and Tobago Warner transferred to the accounts of a local supermarket chain ($ 4.86 million), and the other part – to pay for their own credit card.
Egypt’s former Minister of Youth and Sports Aley Eddin Helal said that Warner offered to provide the Egyptian proposal, seven votes worth a million dollars each. Representatives of the countries of the Pharaohs refused to give bribe functionaries have not received, we recall, a single vote.
Sam Warner still denies all the allegations against him and calls on the basis of the Russian proverb “do not dig him a hole “.
«South Africa did not give me a bribe of $ 10 million. President Blatter also did not give me any bribes. Look, do not fall into the pit that they dug for me, “- said the former vice-president of FIFA.
However, the “stigma of a gun,” not only in South Africa. There are also serious allegations against Germany, conducted the World Cup in 2006.
Earlier, the president of the Football Association of the Congo and member of the FIFA Executive Committee Constant Omari said that the Germans bought the voice of Oceania, by which secured the victory in the final round of voting.
«Germany illegally acquired voice Oceania to get the right to host the 2006 World Cup. But this is not to say. When it comes to Germany, no one wants to talk, “- Omari complained in an interview with RTL.
Now, the German press has unearthed new details of the scandalous elections. Allegedly, the company Bayer AG and Volkswagen pledged to invest heavily in factories in Thailand and South Korea, and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder put guns to Saudi Arabia in exchange for votes.
The information seriously interested in the Bundestag. The representative of the party “Alliance 90 / The Greens” Özkan Mutlu sent to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere country a letter in which he demanded an investigation.
It seems that the fire of the story is just beginning to flare. Russians, meanwhile, are more interested in the fate of the world championship – in 2018. FIFA has once again stated that no issues in our country do not have a procedure for selecting the host country has been totally transparent.
items in Qatar, which will host the World Cup in 2022, do not look so safe. Phaedra Al-Fudge earlier labor in Qatar Bid Committee, now testifying FBI said that Blatter in return for immunity will select its own world championship at the Qataris.
Ready to host the tournament has been expressed Britain, which initially claimed the 2018 World Cup.
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