Two weeks to go until the new Fifa president is elected and today another former Fifa big shot was sent packing. Jerome Valcke, former secretary general was banned from all football activity for 12 years. Almost seems like old news, repeated, now. Blatter, Platini, and a bunch of Fifa Executive Committee members banned or suspended, the only excitement is finding out what the reasons were.
Valcke's primary crime was being involved with a sports marketing firm and helping them, and himself, gain financially through the sale of World Cup tickets. But during the course of the investigations other misdemeanours came to light. The most entertaining, and that which fits into the model of the stereotypical sport executive that most of us believe is true of anybody in a position like this, was that he used private jets for sightseeing purposes and chose to fly on private jets rather than commercial flights. All of this was done at Fifa's expense.
Of course the obvious question is how did he get away with this at the time and for so long? And I think, am I really asking that question? This is Fifa after all. Nothing should surprise anybody, and I don't think anything does. Here’s to a new Fifa......no, no, I'm not going down that road again.
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