The History of FIFA Part 3 - Sports Bizarre
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Yes, welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Before we get into another episode, Titus O'Reilly here. I just want to remind you, if you want, you can become a Bizarre Plus member. Not only do you get access to over 100 episodes in our back catalogue that are only exclusive to members, we have new episodes coming up all the time. Once a week, we have a bonus ep. If you're interested in becoming a member, just simply click the link in the show notes and you can sign up today. It's Sports Bizarre. We're going to go full weird and bizarre in a way you will not see coming. The gloves are off. The hunt for the weirdest.
Hang on a second. This is so bonkers. This is terrible. You can't be doing that. Strangers. This is nuts. Yeah. This is borderline psychotic. This is only going to just increase on the shock. Most unbelievable.
This guy's the greatest villain of all time. There's a lot going on. Can't keep up. Stories to ever occur.
I'm learning a lot today.
Hold on to your hands because we're just getting started. in the world of sport that's the worst script i've ever heard well it's not over oh hello i've gone too early sports bizarre tells member of the media to suck it and keep on sucking it rupert joined a local circus and was learning the art of swallowing live snakes threw the ball down mounted his horse and rode away and never played again it's time for the leaders of the hunt get the whiteboard out or i refuse to go any further It's Titus O'Reilly and Mick Molloy. Yes, welcome back again. Our history of FIFA continues with part three. It's getting wild. I think you can see how mad FIFA is and how it even works and I'm still getting my head around it.
This is the series we ran a while ago, but we've updated it and we're going to be adding episodes on the end around the new CEO, the tournament in the US and Mexico and Canada. So all the craziness that goes with that. So enjoy the series. It was a lot of fun doing it.
So where we left you, Sepp Blatter had just been re-elected in a landslide. In a landslide. I can't believe it.
So the English and the Europeans are all anti him, but he still wins easily. He wins in 2002 his second presidential election because he's not always challenged. So in 2002 he's challenged. He wins 139 of the 195 votes on offer. He's not challenged again until 2011. He can't even get up and speak at a general assembly. So a big part of his power base by this point has become the Caribbean. The Caribbean's got 35 votes. It's the Confederation of North Central America and the Caribbean Association Football, CONCACAF. It's one of those shortenings that's harder to say. Canada, North America, Mexico, Central America, this is there. But the Caribbean always, because it's got so many islands and so many countries there, it has so many votes.
America's just one vote. The Caribbean's got 35 votes. So if the Caribbean Football Association can kind of – all voters are blocked, they can dominate that every time.
Has anyone ever tried to just disband FIFA? Has anyone decided to go, this League of Nations does not work, let's all withdraw. So if the Europeans and the South Americans all withdrew and re-established it, a new organisation with a new constitution, surely that gets the job done.
There's been thoughts thrown of setting up an alternate thing or doing stuff, but... It's always been seen as just rather try and take over and reform FIFA has been what they've more tried to do. And I think each time it seems anyone gets into that. They succumb. To the ring. Well, the election maths, right? And then the problem that's happened too is to come in and go, hey, we're going to let less African countries and Caribbean countries vote and Asian countries vote. It seems very Eurocentric. So people then go, well, no, like trying to reform it, you're kind of either being racist or colonial. So it's had all these historical problems. Plus it just makes so much money. People don't want to leave. Like they still want to win the World Cup.
Like it's got them trapped. Like even now everyone's complaining, but no one's not going to Qatar.
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