FIFA uncovered

As the world is mesmerized by the on-going 2022 soccer world cup, Netflix has been showing its documentary about FIFA and its wrongdoings that are using the same ingredients as what goes inside the more repulsive bribery crimes. 

If you can see that film and read between the lines, you will realize why Switzerland and its infamous banking network is a must-have headquarters location for world sporting federations, including of course, the International Olympic Committee. 

We just finished watching the four-part series and have found it as much entertaining as it was informative. Without spoiling the story we came up with two take-away. 

First. it took the US Justice Department to bring down Sepp Blatter and the house of FIFA, while none of the European governments lifted one finger to bring up the scandal into the open (instead, France’s President Sarkozy was the one igniting part of it with Qatar candidacy). 

Second, the two men in command, Blatter and Platini didn’t end up in prison as they should have, with the help of the Swiss Government that “delegated” the pains to the executives and associates below their chain of command, and Blatter even had the guts to claims “absolutely no responsibility” for the mess. 

So, if you don’t see the piece, you’ve got the gist of it.