UEFA officials – the same ones responsible for governing soccer’s inter-club play around the world – have issued a statement regarding the recent FIFA indictments that happened Wednesday morning, after convening today in Warsaw, Poland, ahead of the Europa League Final.
Succinctly, it seems UEFA aims to protest and postpone the upcoming FIFA elections scheduled for Friday, presumably hoping to oust FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, amidst the arising allegations which don’t seem at all promising for the Federation.
UEFA’s statement reads:
Today’s events are a disaster for FIFA and tarnish the image of football as a whole.
UEFA is deeply shocked and saddened by them.
These events show, once again, that corruption is deeply rooted in FIFA’s culture.
There is a need for the whole of FIFA to be “rebooted” and for a real reform to be carried out.
The upcoming FIFA Congress risks to turn into a farce and therefore the European associations will have to consider carefully if they should even attend this Congress and caution a system, which, if it is not stopped, will ultimately kill football.
The UEFA member associations are meeting tomorrow ahead of the FIFA Congress. At that point, the European associations will decide on what further steps need to be taken to protect the game of football.
In the meantime, the members of the UEFA Executive Committee are convinced that there is a strong need for a change to the leadership of this FIFA and strongly believe that the FIFA Congress should be postponed, with new FIFA presidential elections to be organised within the next six months.
Now, a live look-in at FIFA’s headquarters…
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It’s probably a good time to get an attorney on the phone, Sepp. Or don’t. Either way, hopefully good riddance.
[via UEFA}