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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
hell no. they sit on mountains of money. they set up championships all-over. they decide waht is a country and what is not. transfer policies. financial rules. on & on. they are bigger than the UN i reckon.
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They are but they needn't be. Admittedly it involves more than what I said but far less than it got involved with under Blatter.
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all reigns are that. havelange ruled for a quarter century and he's the one who brought big sponsorship money into this whole thing. he's 99 and still alive btw.
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To a degree, but if you limited the term of presidency you'd do a lot to discourage it.
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how would you do it then? rule britannia? i'm not asking this mockingly-- i was reminded in an article the other day of the many recent scandals in european football. who has moral superiority?
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I'm not talking about moral superiority but if the big European countries feel that FIFA's only interested in using them as a cash cow, then they'll be tempted to break away and do their own thing. The reality is FIFA needs European football far more than European football needs FIFA.
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institutions are designed to weed those people out. it will just be another gerontocrat mafioso.
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Tend to agree but, again, limiting the term of presidency will only help.