FIFA World Cup Russia 2018

Cleaning ? those corrupt officials are still there . US fifa official accepted bribe for south africa , brazil bid . Hillary Foundation donated money to bid for promoting Qatar bid . US a systematic corrupt country taking out other corrupts is nothing but a political move . Palestine Football complained against Israeli football team to get them suspended from fifa and just 2 days before the vote suddenly Deptt of Justice usa sooks feel like justifying their jurisdiction on them . US has done nothing good , excpect another corrupt president now ad yeah pro-israel too . Have you seen who all are running for this position ? middle east kings

Regular wrote:The cleaning was good IMHO. But it was politicized. Too bad it was US that had to do it as Europe has no balls at all.

I would agree that the cleaning was good... If it had been done legally. Swiss authorities should have been the ones to deal with it.

But no, the yanks have to ride in and act above international law yet again and make it as obvious as possible that no one anywhere in the West even bats an eye when they do. The MSM will be riding this one when FIFA begins in Russia, you just watch. There'll be those appropriately vague references made towards this particular scandal, with just enough information to make the sheep think it has everything to do with the host country, not with FIFA itself.

Looks like Russia is going to be stripped of the World Cup, keep in mind this will be determined in U.S. courts, not some neutral international court (of course very few of those actually exist). So what's the next move?

The level of economic sabotage is unreal, it's time for Russia to retaliate with asymmetrical warfare, by cutting ties with the West on copyright cooperation on various forms of media, and allow all the top filesharing sites to migrate to Russia, where the Russophobic Western media will eat the losses (to the tune of hundreds of billions of Dollars in any given fiscal year) via P2P filesharing.

Thats stupid. Everyone was paying bribes to corrupt organisation. It was simply the way how things were going.
By the way.
Russia is cracking down on filesharing as of late.
They are cracking down on dark web, they are cooperating with euros and give details to their investigators.
Russia is arresting people who are carding, scamming europeans and americans.
I am all for Russia turning blind eye on filesharing and cyber crime, but just because it would benefit me alot

If they really take away the WC the Russians should retaliate with a full stop on the delivery of rocket engines and increase prices for American astronauts or better yet, don't allow them at all. Seriously, no more nice guys.

magnumcromagnon wrote:Looks like Russia is going to be stripped of the World Cup, keep in mind this will be determined in U.S. courts, not some neutral international court (of course very few of those actually exist). So what's the next move?

The level of economic sabotage is unreal, it's time for Russia to retaliate with asymmetrical warfare, by cutting ties with the West on copyright cooperation on various forms of media, and allow all the top filesharing sites to migrate to Russia, where the Russophobic Western media will eat the losses (to the tune of hundreds of billions of Dollars in any given fiscal year) via P2P filesharing.

Already exists streamallthis.is a russian host linking english HD movies and 360/480p Series like GoT from Netflix or whereever they get it.

magnumcromagnon wrote:
The level of economic sabotage is unreal, it's time for Russia to retaliate with asymmetrical warfare, by cutting ties with the West on copyright cooperation on various forms of media, and allow all the top filesharing sites to migrate to Russia, where the Russophobic Western media will eat the losses (to the tune of hundreds of billions of Dollars in any given fiscal year) via P2P filesharing.

its economic warfare in all but the name(even if only the Russian leadership dont acknowledge it yet), so these stuff are trophies.
and the good thing is we partake too! how commie of us!

Regular wrote:Thats stupid. Everyone was paying bribes to corrupt organisation. It was simply the way how things were going.
By the way.
Russia is cracking down on filesharing as of late.
They are cracking down on dark web, they are cooperating with euros and give details to their investigators.
Russia is arresting people who are carding, scamming europeans and americans.
I am all for Russia turning blind eye on filesharing and cyber crime, but just because it would benefit me alot

It exists this way because there's some kind of cooperation, but if the West decides to cut all cooperation/economic ties than the gloves are off!

Regular wrote:The cleaning was good IMHO. But it was politicized. Too bad it was US that had to do it as Europe has no balls at all.

I have to agree. However, it will just allow corrupt officials that are friendlier with the US to take their place. Virtually all international sport governing bodies are corrupt and the US is in no way clean of this (2002 SLC Winter Olympics comes readily to mind). Anyway, what's done is done and we all should move on, even though Qatar did screw up the entire selection process.

Neutrality wrote:If they really take away the WC the Russians should retaliate with a full stop on the delivery of rocket engines and increase prices for American astronauts or better yet, don't allow them at all. Seriously, no more nice guys.

I think Russia should keep up with its proud tradition of sending Polite People around the time of international sporting events.

One of the things that made Blatter so unpopular in the west was that he wanted to expand the game to countries that have never held soccer world cups before... hense it is rather likely that Russia probably won the bid without having to bribe or cheat as it grows the game better to hold it in Russia than it does to hold it in the UK where soccer is already popular.

It was also why Blatter kept getting reelected because he was no washingtons bitch.... he realised there was a huge world out there that did not only include the west and he was open to expanding soccer into the rest of the world instead of pandering to a few countries.

Russia cuts 2018 FIFA World Cup preparations budget by $560 mln

A video.. of fifa 2018..

Shows some interesting images of Russian cities..
where the world cup is supposed to happen .

GarryB wrote:Hahahaha... they have agreed not to shift it from Russia, but they have not said anything about the 2022 games... sounds like the US is going to get the reward for cleaning out FIFA...  Hopefully the boycott is complete and only the English and US turn up... might be Englands best chance for a win these days...

Cleaning what? Thiefa? Ahahahahahhaha. There's no cleaning FIFA from the top. FIFA is a caretaker for football as a sport, yet the sport is sick and that's not the responsability of FIFA's leadership. Blatter is a bonafide crook, but Joao Havelange was on a whole different planet all together, yet Havelange's minions are still entrenched in the current FIFA system and confederations. The US cases aren't done in FIFA's interest, they're simply a PR move. While the US DOJ makes funny headlines, the slave trade of football players (and the banking network that supports it) still keeps going. Worse it is the US that by largely opening sports to betting firms has accelerated the current overheating in terms of finances, creating a multi storey building among teams and therefore creating the buy to win conditions.

People criticize Blatter, but he hasn't done anything different than most sporting institutions regarding the venue attributions. People can applaud PR stunts and the look again. Nothing has changed, nor will change.

KoTeMoRe wrote:Nothing has changed, nor will change.

That's why Maradona needs to be FiFA's next president .

whir wrote:

KoTeMoRe wrote:Nothing has changed, nor will change.

That's why Maradona needs to be FiFA's next president .

If El Pibe de Oro becomes anything close to FIFA's top man expect the sport to become a religion (and a World Cup in Cuba). That man is the cause for my personal cult of Napoli's San Paolo Nereo. O Mama etc...

Russia needs to keep its tempo, do its homework and try going as far as possible in the competition.

Builders of 2018 World Cup Russian stadium find remains of WWII soldiers

Between July 1942 and February 1943, Volgograd and surrounding areas were the site of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Second World War's largest military confrontation

VOLGOGRAD, July 2. /TASS/. A bunker with the remains of Soviet soldiers killed in World War II has been found in Volgograd - formerly Stalingrad - during construction of a stadium to host matches of the FIFA World Cup in 2018.

Between July 1942 and February 1943, Volgograd and surrounding areas were the site of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Second World War's largest military confrontation.

"We are 100% convinced that the remains belong to Soviet soldiers as Nazi troops had not reached this place," a local museum official told TASS. Earlier finds have unearthed more than 20 items of wartime munitions at the arena site.

World Cup matches will be held between June 14 and July 15 at 12 stadiums located in 11 Russian cities. These are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara.

Russia intends to up budget for 2018 FIFA World Cup organization by over $176 mln

Last month, Russian Sports Minister announced that Russia’s budget spending allocated for the organization of the 2018 FIFA World Cup would remain unchanged in the course of the next three years

MOSCOW, August 24. /TASS/. The Russian Sports Ministry intends to up the budget spending on the preparations for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia by over 12.5 billion rubles (some $176.2 million), according to information posted on the government’s legal information web portal on Monday.

Last month, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko announced that Russia’s budget spending allocated for the organization of the 2018 FIFA World Cup would remain unchanged in the course of the next three years.

The Russian government announced in late May its decision to reduce an allocated budget for the organization of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia by 3.6 billion rubles from 664.1 to 660.5 billion rubles.

The total budget of 664.1 billion rubles for the organization of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia was announced in 2012.

In February Russia already introduced changes to the program of its preparations for the 2018 World Cup, in particular reducing the number of training sites for the upcoming global football championship and reducing seating capacity of two stadiums.

A relevant document was agreed upon with the Russian Sports Ministry as well as with the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) and signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

The number of initially planned 48 pre-tournament training sites across Russia has been reduced to 37 and the seating capacity of two out of 12 total stadiums selected to host the 2018 World Cup matches has been slashed by some 22%.

The two stadiums at the issue are the Baltika Stadium in Russia’s western city of Kaliningrad and the Central Stadium in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg. Their accommodating capability will be downsized from 45,000 to 35,000-seat capacity in line with the minimization of the construction costs.

Russia won the bid to host the 2018 World Cup over four years ago in a tight race against the joint bid from England, Portugal and Spain and the joint bid on behalf of Belgium and the Netherlands.

Russia selected 11 host cities to be the venues for the matches of the 2018 World Cup and they are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara.

The matches of the 2018 World Cup will be held between June 14 and July 15 at 12 stadiums located in the 11 mentioned above cities across Russia. Two of the stadiums are located in the Russian capital.

1,000 days to 2018 FIFA World Cup: thousands join celebrations across Russia



Russian President Vladimir Putin, currently in Sochi, addressed the Moscow Red Square ceremony via video linkup

MOSCOW, September 18. /TASS/. At least 45,000 Russians gathered in 33 cities on Friday morning to mark the 1,000-day countdown to the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Moscow’s Red Square, which became the center of the celebrations, was turned into a football fan park with the FIFA World Cup trophy made of 18 karat gold being exhibited in a special pavilion.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, currently in Sochi, addressed the Moscow ceremony via video linkup.

"Everything will be done to decently host the planet’s best 32 national teams, to provide the necessary conditions, which would allow them to display their best skills and present the multimillion audience of fans with the real grand football," Putin said.

"We are always glad to receive guests and promise to organize a grand sports holiday, which I am sure will make the history of the world sports and global football," the president said. "The most important, it [the holiday] will further consolidate the biggest friendly international football family."

The huge countdown clock for the 2018 FIFA World Cup started on Manege Square in central Moscow at 1:22 p.m. Moscow time (10:22 a.m. GMT).

Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, Colin Smith, FIFA's director of competition, presidential aide Igor Levitin, Alexei Sorokin, the general director of the Local Organizing Committee, Leonid Slutsky, the head coach of the Russian national football team, and other officials and football stars took part in the ceremony.

Mutko compared the upcoming tournament with "a jewel of the world’s football crown."

"We will hold the best World Cup ever. But much hard work is to be done," the minister said.

Retired football players Lothar Matthaus of Germany, Fernando Hierro of Spain and Alexei Smertin of Russia and FC Zenit St. Petersburg forward Alexander Kerzhakov played a ten-minute match on Moscow’s Red Square as part of the countdown celebrations.

Four young footballers aged between eight and ten joined the game, which ended with a 4-4 draw.

Red Square also hosted a football tournament for Under-16 national teams. The competition brought together Russia and the countries that have won the last three editions of the FIFA World Cup: Italy, Spain and Germany.

The residents of Sochi, which hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics, launched 2,018 balloons into the skies above the Black Sea and watched a ‘mega-football’ match involving 300 young players.

Kaliningrad, Russia’s westernmost city, will celebrate the countdown launch for three days with fireworks and other events.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter also praised Russia’s efforts to organize the event.

"Given the current level of preparations, we are fully confident that Russia will prove to be an excellent host both for the teams and the fans," he said in a statement.

The 2018 World Cup matches will be held between June 14 and July 15 at 12 stadiums in 11 Russian cities, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara.

Russia’s 2018 FIFA World Cup budget final, to remain unchanged in future — sports minister

"We are not going back to the issue of optimizing infrastructure construction costs," Vitaly Mutko told journalists

MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/. Russia’s allocated budget for hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup would not be subjected to any further cuts and would remain unchanged until the much-anticipated global football tournament, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said on Thursday.

"We are not going back to the issue of optimizing infrastructure construction costs," Mutko, who is also the president of the Russian Football Union (RFU) and a member of the FIFA Executive Committee, told journalists.

"We have adjusted minimal requirements concerning the accommodation, stadiums’ capacity, training sites," he said. "The budget is final, safeguarded and there will be any further cuts."

In January, Sports Minister Mutko announced that Russia planned to cut its budget spending on the organization of the 2018 World Cup, but would keep its expenditures on the infrastructure and stadium construction unchanged, despite ruble volatility.

According to the minister, financial programs of all departments involved in the organization of the global football championship were slashed by 10%, excluding spending items on the infrastructure.

In February Russia already introduced changes to the program of its preparations for the 2018 World Cup, in particular reducing the number of training sites for the upcoming global football championship and reducing seating capacity of two stadiums.

A relevant document was agreed upon with the Russian Sports Ministry as well as with the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) and signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

The number of initially planned 48 pre-tournament training sites across Russia has been reduced to 37 and the seating capacity of two out of 12 total stadiums selected to host the 2018 World Cup matches has been slashed by some 22%.

The two stadiums at the issue are the Baltika Stadium in Russia’s western city of Kaliningrad and the Central Stadium in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg. Their accommodating capability will be downsized from 45,000 to 35,000-seat capacity in line with the minimization of the construction costs.

Russia won the bid to host the 2018 World Cup over four years ago in a tight race against the joint bid from England, Portugal and Spain and the joint bid on behalf of Belgium and the Netherlands.

Russia selected 11 host cities to be the venues for the matches of the 2018 World Cup and they are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara.

The matches of the 2018 World Cup will be held between June 14 and July 15 at 12 stadiums located in the 11 mentioned above cities across Russia. Two of the stadiums are located in the Russian capital.

Just in case you missed it, Sepp Blatter, when interviewed last week, admitted that both the 2018 and 2022 World Cups countries were preselected, the first to Russia and the second to the US, nice and fair! Then Platini came along and screwed the plan and, to further French influence in the Gulf, Qatar got the second. The 'commission' on that must have been huge.

In the process Platini, primarily by upsetting the US so much it unleashed its financial attack dogs, has brought the whole FIFA pack of cards down, including his bid to be boss.

Speaking to the Financial Times' Malcolm Moore, the 79-year-old's comments cast further doubt over the legitimacy of the bidding process and also undermine his former ally Platini, 60.

‘If you see my face when I opened it, I was not the happiest man to say it is Qatar. Definitely not,’ Blatter said.

He goes on to say that there had been a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ among FIFA’s leaders that the 2018 and 2022 World Cups will go to the ‘two superpowers’ - Russia and the USA.

- The suspended FIFA president has said the FIFA were set to hand the 2022 tournament to the USA, but Platini backed out of a 'gentleman's agreement'
- FIFA chiefs had agreed that the 2018 and 2022 competitions would go to the 'two superpowers' Russia and the US, the Swiss says
- But a week before the vote in December 2010, Blatter said Platini backed out
- 'I am no longer in your picture because I have been told by the head of state that we should consider the situation of France,' Platini alleged to have said

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3297209/Sepp-Blatter-admits-FIFA-plot-hand-2022-World-Cup-USA-thwarted-Michel-Platini-reneged-gentleman-s-agreement.html

That's quite harsh on the US though. No wonder they cooked up a corruption scandal and extradited his ass.

Russia will adjust football team’s 2018 preparations to Putin’s instructions — minister

Vladimir Putin wants more playing match-time for Russia’s perspective young footballers ahead of the World Cup

MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. A final program of the Russian national football team’s preparations for the 2018 FIFA World Cup will be adjusted to reflect suggestions from the country’s president, Russian Sport Minister Vitaly Mutko told TASS on Monday.
"We do have a plan of preparations of the national football team, but we will have to do some extra work adjusting it to the presidential instructions," Mutko, who is also the president of the Russian Football Union (RFU), said in an interview with TASS.
Last week Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Sports Ministry to draft a plan of the national team’s preparations for the global football championship pointing out in particular the necessity of giving enough of playing match-time for Russia’s perspective young footballers ahead of the World Cup. The deadline for the implementation of the presidential instructions is March 30, 2016.
"We were spared some time, we will work on it and think about it jointly with the football clubs and the league [the Russian Football Premier League]," Mutko said. "The instructions’ sole purpose is to successfully prepare the team. We will definitely do this and we have a set of measures currently under the implementation."
Russia won the bid to host the 2018 World Cup at the FIFA Congress in Guatemala on December 4, 2010 in a tight race against the bid from England, the joint bid from Portugal and Spain and the joint bid on behalf of Belgium and the Netherlands.
The country later selected 11 host cities to be the venues for the matches of the 2018 World Cup and they are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara.
The matches of the 2018 World Cup will be held between June 14 and July 15 at 12 stadiums located in the 11 mentioned above cities across Russia. Two of the stadiums are located in the Russian capital.
In September, a total of 33 cities across Russia involving over 450,000 people were celebrating the 1,000-day countdown to the 2018 World Cup.
Main celebrations of Russia’s countdown to the FIFA World Cup, which was inaugurated almost a century ago and takes place once in four years, were held in the Russian capital of Moscow.

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