Henningsen: FIFA Is An Outdated ‘Corrupt Old Boys Club’

21st Century Wire says…
This week, against numerous calls of protest within international football, seventy-nine-year-old Joseph Sepp Blatter, was elected to his fifth term as FIFA president. Normally we’d say, ‘who cares’, but this story has much wider geopolitical implications – far beyond an inflatable ball…
21WIRE’s Patrick Henningsen speaks with RT International about what this story really means to the sport, and also what the geopolitical ramifications are to a potential US and Swiss-led ‘anti-corruption’ investigation against Russia who is scheduled to host the World Cup in 2018.
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This post was published at 21st Century Wire on MAY 30, 2015.