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It turns out World Cup corruption isn’t limited to your Qatars, Russias and other developing parts of the soccer world. No, even the most historic of soccer strongholds, like Germany, aren’t&nbsp;immune to FIFA’s infamous pay-to-play game.
According to a report today from the Der Spiegel, Germany won the right to host the 2006 World Cup with the aid of a 10.3 million Swiss franc slush fund supplied&nbsp;by former Adidas chief executive officer Robert Louis-Dreyfus. The funds were&nbsp;used to&nbsp;secure votes of four Asian representatives on FIFA’s 24-person executive committee, giving Germany enough&nbsp;votes to host the 2006 finals.
“The money had been paid into a FIFA bank account in Geneva,” Der Spiegel reported, according to the Associated Press. “From there, FIFA allegedly promptly transferred the money to a Zurich account belonging to Louis-Dreyfus.”
Louis-Dreyfus, who died in 2009, was repaid after Germany secured the World Cup. According to Der Spiegel, Franz Beckenbauer, who headed the bid committee, and&nbsp;Wolfgang Niersbach, the current head of the German federation, knew about the slush fund in 2005, at the latest.
In July 2000, Germany was competing with South Africa, England and Morocco for hosting rights to the 2006 tournament, with England and Morocco eliminated from the process after two rounds of voting. After the second ballot, Germany and South Africa each had 11 of the committee’s 24 votes. On the final ballot, Germany won by a 12-to-11 vote, with Oceania’s representative abstaining from the process after being pressured to vote for South Africa.
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South Africa was awarded the 2010 World Cup, but had it not been for Germany’s slush fund, Africa would have had its first finals four years earlier. According to today’s report, Germany used Louis-Dreyfus’s funds, then valued at $6 million, to augment the eight-vote European block it had already secured. The four Asian votes pushed Germany to 12, meaning the country only had to pull one more vote into its camp to have a majority.
Although Germany never got that vote, the slush fund’s power still came good. When Charlie Dempsey, Oceania’s representative, abstained in the third round of the 2000 vote, Germany had its majority, ensuring FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s tie-breaking vote, which would have gone to South Africa, was not cast.
This isn’t the first allegation of corruption surrounding Germany’s 2006 bid. Earlier this summer, German outlet Die Zeit reported the German government sent Saudi Arabia grenade launchers&nbsp;in exchange for support in their bid. Even before that, Dempsey’s decision cast doubt on the validity of the process, with&nbsp;New Zealand’s sports minister<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/in_depth/2000/2006_world_cup_decision/822645.stm"> calling the surprise abstention of his countryman “distressing and embarrassing.”</a>
With that history surrounding the 2006 World Cup vote, today’s revelations fall far short of shocking. They do, however, add to a growing list of scandals surrounding FIFA, which has seen its <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/2015/10/08/fifa-suspends-blatter-platini-and-valcke-from-soccer-related-activities-for-90-days/">president secretary general and a powerful executive committee member</a>&nbsp;recently suspended. This is in addition to <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/2015/05/27/fifa-officials-arrested-on-corruption-charges-sepp-blatter-not-among-them/">the United States Department of Justice investigation that’s led to 14 indictments</a> as well as an <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/2015/09/25/swiss-authorities-interrogate-sepp-blatter-about-suspected-criminal-activity/">ongoing criminal investigation from the Swiss government</a>.
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In that sense,&nbsp;the most alarming parts of today’s report are&nbsp;the scale of Germany’s involvement as well as the participation of an active Adidas representative. To this point, there has been little hard evidence of collusion between soccer official representatives and their sponsors. If anything, <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/2015/10/02/sepp-blatter-resignation-coca-cola-mcdonalds-sponsors/">sponsors have begun pushing back</a> against the graft they’ve come to support. Here, however, is evidence that the most powerful officer at Adidas, one of the game’s oldest and most powerful sponsors, was colluding with one of its most valued partners to secure the World Cup.
This isn’t the perception of corruption we get from those that want to go back to the ways – those who deride the democracy of giving all members — even developing nations with little soccer history — a say in the process. This is Germany, one of FIFA’s cornerstone nations, as well as Adidas, the governing body’s most valuable partner. This is the old school showing that corruption likely transcends CONCACAF and CONMEBOL scandals; that in lieu of strength in numbers, older, more established members can leverage their strength in prestige, potentially using the powerful relationships they’ve cultivated over the years to affect the same types of corruption.
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This is why nations in Africa, Asia, North and South America supported Blatter for so long. For most of FIFA’s history, corruption like this was the rule – corruption that screwed places like Africa out of World Cups. Thanks to the stances of officials in nations&nbsp;like England, France and Germany — nations that get the most coverage in the western media — we were given a devil to know, that of corruption festering in the rest of the soccer world. As today’s news reminds us, those stances only obscured corruption that’s always been endemic to FIFA,&nbsp;which somehow, ironically became the devil we ignored.
Between the allegations around Germany and Adidas, as well as Michel Platini, this clearly goes beyond the support that kept&nbsp;Blatter in office, making any worries about who will replace the soon-to-depart president even more prescient. Rather than seeing FIFA as a body incapable of preventing corruption, it may be better to see it as one defined by graft, scandal and abuse. Surely there are nations that don’t take part in this, but they appear to be few and far between. And they seem&nbsp;incapable of preventing the flow of scandal that’s emanated from Zurich and Europe for the last six months.

2006 World Cup corruption report highlights the devil we ignore

2006 World Cup corruption report highlights the devil we ignore - World Soccer Talk

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After two hours of watching Rebecca Lowe, Robbie Earle, and Robbie Mustoe break down Deadline Day on NBCSN, I still can’t decide if this would be a good thing for Major League Soccer. The signal-to-noise ratio is ridiculously low, a confluence of tabloid pressures, gullibility, and potential for news (albeit slim) creating a ridiculous din, one that’s developed into a cottage industry. In this grave new world, you don’t have to be an intellect to understand. To be an expert, you just have to tolerate the content that’s being fed to you.
Not that it isn’t a splendid spectacle. Harry Redknapp talking through a car window. Peter Odemwingie denied on QPR’s doorstep. <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/2014/08/23/4-reasons-why-danny-welbeck-should-leave-manchester-united/">Danny Welbeck</a> swapping Old Trafford for the Emirates. Even absent financial lunacy like Fernando Torres’s or <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/2014/09/01/manchester-united-sign-radamel-falcao-on-season-long-loan/">Radamel Falcao’s</a> moves, Deadline Day always provides something, and in a world where diehard fans are insatiable about their somethings, the twice-a-year fun is relatively harmless.
There is, however, a difference between being harmless and necessary, and with MLS always looking for ways to raise its profile, it’s interesting to consider what a Deadline Day event would bring to the league. MLS already has a couple of deadline days: The close of the summer transfer window (Aug. 6, this year), and the fall roster freeze (Sept. 15). What if we took those events and created a glorified coverage?
Imagine next year, with ESPN carrying much of the broadcast load, Adrian Healey, Taylor Twellman, and Alexi Lalas praising every obscure Romanian, as if he’s the next Dutch leaguer tempting English hearts? In front of 100 inches of touch screen goodness, they swap circles in and out of formations, asking how players we’ve never heard of will sway the title race.
Is he good? Is he bad? It doesn’t really matter. This wantaway from Club Atletico Rafaela would be a different maker for ‘Midtable FC’, they could say about anybody. Anonymity can’t keep us from assessing the move.
Unfortunately, there are a few things beyond mere interest that prevents this kind of spectacle; namely MLS’s rules. A cursory look across the U.S. sports’ landscape shows a telling, inverse relationship between regulation and transfer and trade window mayhem. Professional baseball and hockey, with their permissive systems, have active trade deadlines. Basketball’s more restrictive environment means stars rarely move at the end of a window, while the National Football League’s salary cap and early trade deadline render midseason moves irrelevant.
MLS’s rules are for more complex than the NFL’s, where the main constraints are huge roster needs and the complexities of signing bonuses. In MLS, homegrown, generation adidas, and designated players all have different impacts on a roster, one already constrained by a low salary cap. International slots, allocation pay-downs, and the cap-exempt players on the back end of a squad add another layer to potential deals, while the dynamics of a soft salary cap and no real revenue sharing mean a growing disparity between the haves and have nots. In MLS, you don’t just decide to trade or sign somebody. You start navigating a minefield.
Perhaps that could all be glossed over in a made-for-TV event, but to have a meaningful deadline day, you have to grapple with a series of more difficult questions: Is it worth it to open up the rules to create a more dynamic environment? If transactions generate fan interest, how do you balance that against the stability the rules provide? Is creating a more permissive environment – one a vocal minority already deride with Europe’s transfer free-for-all – a net good?
As the NFL shows, a rotisserie league’s waiver wire is not necessary to create interest, though parallels between MLS and the NFL are as ridiculous as comparing the U.S.’s soccer leagues to England’s. Ultimately, MLS has crafted a totally unique environment, one in which Deadline Day madness is unlikely to occur.
The drawbacks: We don’t get to see Alexi Lalas try to explain why ‘Cellardweller United’ will benefit from a Chilean we don’t know. We don’t get that two-hour panel show, and ultimately, we don’t get something the rest of the soccer world seems so willing to make into a biannual occasion.
On the plus side, the hype becomes a matter of perspective, not obligation. We focus on competition instead of confusion, and we never have a panel show that weaves speculation into news.
Is that a good tradeoff? After surviving our latest Deadline Day obsession, I have no idea.

The Predicament Of Having A Glorified MLS Deadline Day Coverage Or Not

The Predicament Of Having A Glorified MLS Deadline Day Coverage Or Not - World Soccer Talk

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If Thierry Henry’s about to say goodbye to Major League Soccer, he’s doing so on a high note. His stint is one that caps one of the most productive four-and-a-half year stretches in league history. True, extending his deal at Red Bull Arena could still happen, but there’s a growing and now very public feeling the 37-year-old, out of contract at the end of the year, will use this fall has his sunset. With 48 goals, 39 assists in 113 MLS games thus far, one of the league’s biggest stars may ride off into that impending night.
On Saturday in Harrison, N.J., the four-time All-Star gave Red Bulls fans a brilliant, almost wistful reminder of what they will miss, a process that didn’t start until after the wayward Impact took a first half lead. Then, the captain responded. A layout header in the 59th. A topspin bouncer in the 67th. A perfectly weighted through ball for <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/2014/08/25/bradley-wright-philips-and-thierry-henry-star-for-new-york-red-bulls/">Bradley Wright-Phillips</a> in the 74th. With a stern reaction that spoke to his intent, Henry, evermore the worn solider harnessing his moments of brilliance, left no doubt.&nbsp;I took this game over. I won it for us. I can still be elite.
The outburst gives Henry seven goals and 11 assists this year. Maintain his current rates through game 34 and Henry could end up with 10 and 16, the latter a career high.&nbsp; Most years, that puts you in the MVP conversation. This year, given how important he’s been to New York – propping Wright-Phillips up as the league’s top scorer – Henry’s numbers might put him among the favorites.
It would have been unreasonable for New York to expect more from a man who was supposed to be their David Beckham, though in that light, Henry’s time in New York can also be seen as a missed opportunity. Though Beckham’s run in Los Angeles vaulted the Galaxy franchise&nbsp;<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2013/11/20/major-league-soccers-most-valuable-teams/">toward a $170 million value</a>, Henry’s impact off the field has been less pronounced. Whereas once Red Bull looked prime to use their new star to finally make a dent in the New York market, four more years on the fringe of the city’s sport scene have cemented their place. With New York City FC set to being play next season, the Red Bulls seemed destined to become the Devils to NYC FC’s more glamorous Rangers.
It’s worth noting that according to Forbes, New York’s franchise value is $114 million, below that of Houston ($125m) and Toronto ($121m), seemingly destined to be usurped by Sporting KC ($108).&nbsp;
Consider the team’s impending change in philosophy – a long-time murmur that became more of a reality after&nbsp;<a href="http://www.espnfc.com/major-league-soccer/19/blog/post/1994982/red-bulls-not-for-sale-but-change-philosophy">Doug McIntyre’s recent reporting</a>. The Galaxy aren’t the example, Red Bull executive imply. Real Salt Lake and Sporting Kansas City are. Given MLS’s structure, it doesn’t make sense to load up a roster with multiple players like Thierry Henry, Rafa Marquez and Tim Cahill. If other teams are doing it Oakland A’s style, New York can, too.
For some, the timing looks a little too convenient; almost an abdication, given NYC FC’s impending arrival. But the approach also casts light on the duality of the Henry era. On the field, the team has won its first major trophy, last year’s Supporters’ Shield, and was a consistent, if often muted, presence in the East’s playoffs – a testament to Henry’s production. Off the field, the initial boost in brand recognition that accompanied Henry’s arrival and, months earlier, Red Bull Arena’s debut waned. If Henry departs this offseason, he’ll leave behind an organization that looks largely similar in size, prestige, and influence to the franchise he joined four years ago.
With empty seats often dotting the upper levels of Red Bull Arena, the state of the franchise puts Henry’s MLS tenure in perspective. His production on the field is beyond reproach, but the club hasn’t evolved, and while it’s too much to ask that any player carry the same weight as <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/2014/07/05/5-reasons-why-david-beckham-should-select-broward-for-his-mls-team-location/">David Beckham</a>, Henry was supposed to have a fraction of that influence. Yet more reserved – witty and sardonic, instead of polished and engaging – Henry’s failed to have that effect, and with the Red Bulls considering a change of course, the Arsenal icon’s time in Harrison is in danger of being reduced to what’s happened on the field.
It was unfair to expect more, but that may be Red Bull’s point. When a player comes with Henry’s hype and compensation, he’s expected to become part of the league’s larger brand. But how many people — how many personalities — are really capable of that kind of transcendence? How many players are able to keep your team in the mind of both the sports and front page editors? To this point in MLS history, there’s only been one.
Henry has given us enough memories on the field, he doesn’t have to justify his contributions off of it, but his time in MLS does provide a couple of lessons. Not only should we treasure the greats the league puts on the field, but we shouldn’t expect them to perform miracles off it.

Thierry Henry’s Impact On The Field Can’t Perform Miracles Off It

Thierry Henry's Impact On The Field Can't Perform Miracles Off It  - World Soccer Talk

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PORTLAND, Ore. – Red bricks rise toward the sun at dusk, the steps at Pioneer Square’s south and west becoming amphitheater benches when movies play across from the courthouse. When the farmers’ market or weekday lunch crowds relinquish control, the 40,000 square foot block between Morrison and Yamhill is split up among skateboarders and chess players, coffee drinkers and tourists. Few notice the 145-year-old building that rests on the adjacent block.
This week, Major League Soccer has taken over the city, leveraging Portland’s refurbished town square as a focal point in the buildup to Wednesday’s All-Star Game. With German champions Bayern Munich in town, MLS has used the site for small-sided games, concerts, and autograph sessions – the type of accoutrement that’s taken MLS’s mid-season showcase from an isolated obligation to something that can occupy a week’s worth of buzz. When a Sunday evening crowd gathered at the Willamette’s waterfront for <a href="http://youtu.be/lPXWt2ESxVY" target="_blank">The Flaming Lips</a>, MLS had an atmosphere that would make the National Basketball Association proud.
It hasn’t always been like this. As recently as five years ago, the All-Star Game was still looking for an identity, with format changes that have taken the game from East versus West and USA versus World evolving into a format that features the world’s biggest clubs. But before the likes of Manchester United, the current Chelsea, and Bayern Munich signed on, there was Fulham. And Celtic. West Ham, Everton, and the smaller, more aspirational Chelsea were there, too, a collection that spoke to the league’s limits. As recently as 2009, when the Toffees beat MLS’s stars on penalty kicks at Rio Tinto Stadium, fans were still deeply ambivalent about whether the league needed an All-Star Game at all.
Since then, there’ve been four major changes.
The first of which was slow evolution, one that has helped define U.S. soccer culture in our lifetime. At some point, an appetite to see Europe’s best transcended remote sources like FOX Sports World or a bar’s Setanta subscription. Clubs can now come to the U.S., draw crowds that may exceeded what they can handle at home, and turn preseason preparation into a business venture. The U.S. was no longer a beguiling frontier of soccer nihilism. It was place that served the bottom line.
That undoubtedly played a part for Manchester United, who became the first mega club to sign onto the All-Star Game in 2010. By then, even the Red Devils were concerned about market share, with a club that’d been England’s most popular in the States seeing new competition for fans’ hearts. With their commitment to All-Star, MLS was able to swap the small, soccer-specific confines of Rio Tinto for Reliant Stadium, with Houston’s NFL venue luring 70,728 to see the Red Devils’ on tour. Finally able to land one of the world’s marquee clubs, the All-Star Game had the second element it needed to become a truly marquee event.
American football stadiums wouldn’t last forever, though, with MLS returning to its own venues the next year. By then, however, the league had abandoned the idea that MLS Cup — to that point the league’s marquee, fall showcase — should be a natural site event. When <a href="https://worldsoccertalk.com/2010/11/22/colorado-beats-dallas-to-win-mls-cup-but-empty-seats-cast-a-dark-shadow/">2010’s game between Colorado and FC Dallas</a> couldn’t generate any excitement in Toronto, Major League Soccer allowed the league’s title game to be hosted by the team with the best record season record. That inability to plan around a venue made the All-Star Game the priority event, where six months ahead of time you knew exactly where it would be.
You also knew a major club team was going to be there, guaranteeing international media would show up to interview the likes of Thierry Henry and David Beckham. You’d have time to coordinate with a city to use areas like Pioneer Square or Waterfront Park. Held in the summer, the All-Star Game was almost guaranteed to see good conditions, while an exhibition’s atmosphere ensured players, coaches, and staff wouldn’t be counting the minutes before shifting attention back to MLS Cup. Moving the league’s title game to a team’s home ground was a subtle, brilliant solution to an array of problems.
But in terms of the All-Star Game’s spectacle, that solution wouldn’t matter if the league wasn’t seeing dramatic improving in other areas. In terms of player talent, the quality of play, and experience on television and at the venues, Major League Soccer has sprinted forward over the last eight years. The league that swallowed deep and expanded with Chivas USA and Real Salt Lake became extinct a few years ago. Major League Soccer has almost nothing in common with its former self.
It’s the fourth change that’s redefined All-Star. Just as Major League Soccer has grown, so has the All-Star Game, evolving into a destination event for soccer bigwigs from all over the world. Nestled nicely between European seasons, in the splendor that is the American summer, the All-Star Game is becoming MLS’s jewel.
Even now, those changes remain important. Bayern Munich just opened an office in New York. With UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules encouraging teams to maximize revenue, the U.S. needs to leveraged. There’s no better way to start that process than taking advantage of MLS’s showcase, forming a relationship with Major League Soccer.

4 Reasons Behind MLS’s All-Star Success

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