FIFA

There are many shocking events that occur so frequently in our society that when we hear about them, we aren't as nearly surprised as we should be. This week, 16 more FIFA officials were criminal charged. This is part of a now 92 count indictment, including charges of racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud, and corruption. And we're not talking about a slipping a couple of ones under the table kind of bribes, these bribes add up to hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars! Now you think that this sort of thing should be incredibly shocking right, the only thing is that this has happened before! Last May, the FBI lead a raid on the FIFA headquarters, obtained serious evidence, and arrest a number of high ranking officials. It was one of those things that everybody knew, and it was only a matter of time until someone put this corrupt organization in its place. At this point, they are a comically transparent organization. A "non-profit" with over $ 1,000,000,000 in the bank. Even their selections for future world cup destinations are ridiculous. The only logical explanation for the 2022 World Cup being in Qatar is bribery, because while else would anyone actually want to play soccer in desserts where civilization barely exists at the moments. There are stadium that are scheduled to be built in places that don’t even exist yet. If anyone hasn't seen the John Oliver segment on how ridiculous FIFA really is, I would highly encourage it. He perfectly exposes all the crap that FIFA tries to pull. My personal favorite was how he called out Jack Warner, the former FIFA VP of CONCACAF. Warner publically came out saying that it was the US that was corrupt not FIFA. To prove his point, he presented an article that claimed the US forced FIFA to give them a special 2015 World Cup. Sounds crazy, right? Warner, remember a very high ranking FIFA official, was quoting an article directly from "The Onion". This is just one of many outrageous things that have happened within FIFA over the last year or so. I can't wait to see what they try next.