FIFA Cleaning up the Dirty Business
Mohamed bin Hammam has been a FIFA powerbroker for 15 years. He took on Sepp Blatter and lost and now he is on the periphery, having been banned from all football activities for life.
While FIFA may look proudly upon this, it is a wonder as to what exactly this means? Bin Hammam successfully brought the 2022 World Cup to Qatar and now he’s an outcast – which has understandably led to rumours, hearsay and accusations about the circumstances and legitimacy of the Qatar bid.
Many are baffled, also, as to why FIFA decided to take action only now? Is it simply due to the fact that Bin Hammam dared to challenge Sepp Blatter’s position?
There are also those who feel that other powerful figures within world football’s governing body could be using Bin Hammam as a fall guy or scapegoat?
And all of this whilst the Russian’s successful 2018 bid escapes scrutiny despite similar initial skepticism and only a few years after Germany defeated South Africa by one vote and under suspicious circumstances to win the right to host the 2006 World Cup.
It would seem that the time has come for FIFA to ring the changes and clean up their act. From the top down, action needs to be taken to show the world that as a sporting organization, corruption will be met with zero tolerance.
Tags: 2022 World Cup, fifa corruption, Football Bets, Mohamed bin Hammam, Sepp Blatter