Lynch court

The name of the US Prosecutor General Loretta Lynch advise everyone to remember. However, this name will be remembered without additional efforts. Because the scandal comes out oh-th. And we will hear about Mrs. Lynch more than once in the coming months. As well as repeatedly, we will hear the list of exotic surnames and names that we have not heard hitherto.

FIFA will not be able to live as before. But will our wonderful country be touched by the fragments of the explosion, and what awaits the World Cup, which we should hold in 2018?

This story demonstrates two things. Firstly, why Russia gets along so well with international sports organizations. And secondly, why we should support a colleague Latynin in her selfless struggle against universal suffrage.

International federations, including FIFA, are also very clear for us. You look at the age of the alleged football corrupt officials detained in Switzerland. Look at their work experience in FIFA structures: 69 years, 72 years old, 83 years old, 86 years old-old robbers, by golly. They have been working in their places for years, decades. They have been sitting there for a long time, have known each other for a long time, for a long time have already agreed on everything about themselves and everyone has been divided. They can be selected a hundred times for their posts, and if the post has to leave, they switch to "another job." So we also lived under the Soviet regime. So we live now. The irremovability of power is effective for those who are insane.

As for the general elections - pay attention to what edges these crooks are from. Most of them represent countries that are not developed in football terms. Almost no one lives in countries that can be called developed in a democratic sense. But these countries have exactly the same rights and exactly the same voices as Spain, Germany, England ... The voice of a German representative in FIFA weighs as much as the voice of the master from the Kaiman Islands - this is the great worldwide “laundry”. If you need to “resolve the issue”, to whom do you turn to - to the German or to the Kaiman? I do not want to offend these glorious islands, as well as Nicaragua, Venezuela, Costa Rica and wonderful elderly representatives of Latin America, who saved up for old age and continued to save even when old age had long come.

According to the similar principle, the IOC was arranged before an equally powerful scandal with bribes erupted when choosing a Salt Lake City, the capital of the Olympic Games. Then a lot has changed, but even now the IOC and its device cause a lot of questions. When Sochi chose the capital of games, these questions arose again.

The irremovability of the authorities, the extensive representation of the third world countries, the opacity of the procedures for obtaining and distributing commercial rights and income from tournaments, the confusion of elections to leading posts, as a result of which the FIFA presidents change no more than once every twenty years and rule up to the ninth ten, as the current chef Joseph Blatter did and made his predecessor Zhoao Ablange.

Elections of countries - hostesses of world championships - a separate song. Although she doesn’t sound louder now. This was wildly alarmed about the-18 World Cup and mixed in a heap, focusing, as always, on the machinations of the damned America. Really in this story there are two things at once. Moreover, the case of corruption when choosing countries of the World Cup-18 and World Cup-22 is a trailer.

The US Department of Justice has long been interested in how the media right to world football tournaments were sold and how tournaments were organized on the American continent. Money was carried out through American banks, transactions were most often concluded on American territory, and the defendants, in addition to others, also had American passports. This whole part of the story is not about football at all. And she does not concern us in any way.

And the second part, of course, is more interesting. And theoretically threatens that there will be no World Cup in Russia - they will take it away. However, such a scenario is still unlikely. The thing is that Russia and Qatar received the rights to world championships at the same time. And therefore, all the time they go in a conjunction, as soon as it comes to corruption. Although the situations were different.

Russia was not an outsider of the race for 2018. And our application was no worse than others. Of course, the British quoted above. But by the time of voting, they frankly got everyone. The British press accused all competitors in everything in a row and at some point, except irritation, did not cause anything among the members of the executive committee FIFA. The British were thrown in spite. With the rest, we are quite prayed to compete. Moreover, having one significant advantage, which was not least taken into account when choosing Sochi. Russia guaranteed any expenses, declared their readiness to spend any money on the tournament as much as possible. And this is very fond of in the IOC, FIFA and all other federations.

Please note that in recent years, as well as in the next few years, Russia will accept the largest competitions, it seems, in general, in all any significant sports. Name anyone to choose from! Football, hockey, Formula 1, athletics, swimming, the Universiade, basketball will almost certainly give us too-we promise not to stand at the price. And global organizations are interested in everything passing "richly." So it is quite possible that we smeared someone there, but the majority voted for Russia not for this reason.

Here with Qatar is much more complicated. Russia won in a stubborn struggle, Qatar defeated by knockout. Despite the fact that his application was originally absurd. The World Cup in this country is not beneficial to anyone except Qatar itself! Well, apparently, those who voted so easily and enthusiastically. Therefore, the revision of the decision in 2022 is very likely. In 2018, I doubt it. In addition, it is too late to transfer the championship. For three years, no one will be prepared normally for such an event. So even with purely pragmatic positions to change and cancel something from hand here.

But definitely FIFA is waiting for big changes. When the functionaries are detained by dozen on the eve of the presidential election, this is cool. When the elections are virtually non -alternative, and the president is open that a year has been accused of all mortal sins and he has already retired about twenty years - this is very cool. And the prosecutor Lynch is not like a person who is ready to agree amicably and lower everything on the brakes.


Photo: Switzerland. Zurich. May 27. During the FIFA press conference dedicated to the arrests of members of the organization’s leadership. Zuma/ TASS