David Gionola to run for FIFA president

rob316

Just breaking now.

Fully behind him would really shake it up, bit of young blood. Anything but that corrupt dinosaur Blatter.

Neil3030

Regarding the position, is he worth it?

dreamers75

Platini has done a cracking job in UEFA so why not

rob316

Neil3030 wrote: »

Regarding the position, is he worth it?

Excellent sir

DVDM93

run for FIFA president? He can't run, he's too fat. Isn't that right John Gregory?

greendom

dreamers75 wrote: »

Platini has done a cracking job in UEFA so why not

and what's that got to do with this subject ?

Lord TSC

M&C Saatchi PR, acting on behalf of Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, told The Associated Press that Ginola will launch his campaign in London on Friday.

http://www.espnfc.com/fifa-world-cup/story/2245835/david-ginola-to-challenge-sepp-blatter-for-the-fifa-presidency

Oat23

It's a PR stunt by Paddy Power.



http://www.espnfc.com/fifa-world-cup/story/2245835/david-ginola-to-challenge-sepp-blatter-for-the-fifa-presidency

Frankie Lee

I'd rather Cantona to be honest.

Bridge93

Is there a risk of too many contenders running against Blatter? Blatter won't lose a huge amount of votes in his strongholds regardless of who is against him, so if there are too many others sharing the rest of the vote it may lead to none getting enough.

thebaz

rob316 wrote: »

Just breaking now.

Fully behind him would really shake it up, bit of young blood. Anything but that corrupt dinosaur Blatter.

best of luck to him , he would be a breadth of fresh air , in comparison to that autocratic control freak Blatter

Ol' Donie

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jan/10/said-and-done-gordon-taylor-ched-evans

I don't think there is much point in anyone running against the dirty corrupt erm...so and so.

I'm sure FIFA giving an £850,000 bonus to every single national federation will go down very well with the smaller poorer ones. It's just such good news they get it in the year they have to go to the trouble of voting for the next FIFA president.

Doesn't Blatter run against himself?

Since when has the dictatorship changed policy?

Vicxas

I was reading somewhere that Ginola might not qualify to run, whats the criteria?

niallo27

rarnes1 wrote: »

Doesn't Blatter run against himself?

Since when has the dictatorship changed policy?

Blatter will **** him up. Next week we will be reading how Ginola was involved in match fixing and best friends with Jimmy savile.

LuckyLloyd

Nominated by five football federations (i.e. FAI / FA) and have spent at least two of last five years before election working for such a body.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/when-saturday-comes-blog/2014/jun/06/fifa-election-rules-president-sepp-blatter

death1234567

rarnes1 wrote: »

Doesn't Blatter run against himself?
Since when has the dictatorship changed policy?

Vicxas wrote: »

I was reading somewhere that Ginola might not qualify to run, whats the criteria?

It's a PR stunt. It's not actually going to happen.

Vicxas

death1234567 wrote: »

It's a PR stunt. It's not actually going to happen.

Oh, well...... now I feel silly.

TimRiggins

death1234567 wrote: »

It's a PR stunt. It's not actually going to happen.

It seems fairly real to me.

TimRiggins

http://www.teamginola.com/

Trying to get people to pledge money. If this is a PR stunt they're going very far with it!

TheDoc

I see it nothing more then another rubbish stunt by a less then reputible bookie.

Hulk Hands

TheDoc wrote: »

I see it nothing more then another rubbish stunt by a less then reputible bookie.

Because of a bit of messing on Twitter? A less than reputible bookie would be someone like betclic which has been known to rob players funds

SM01

I'm growing increasingly tired of Paddy Power's intrusion into the footballing sphere with unfunny publicity stunts and i reckon this will trivialise somewhat the serious business of loosening Blatter's dirty grip on world football.

I used to work in advertising for years before a career change and appreciate that stunts like this can be PR gold dust. Just I find their execution a bit crass and lowest common denominator.

LuckyLloyd

It doesn't matter anyway. Blatter is 78 years old. This is his last go around tops and if he was beaten, *shrug*, doesn't matter. The damage is done already - he has already succeeded in achieving 17 years of making FIFA his personal fiefdom. The Platini era begins soon.

ArmaniJeanss

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

It doesn't matter anyway. Blatter is 78 years old. This is his last go around tops and if he was beaten, *shrug*, doesn't matter. The damage is done already - he has already succeeded in achieving 17 years of making FIFA his personal fiefdom. The Platini era begins soon.

I doubt a European will ever win again, or especially not one so 'pro UEFA' as Platini. Worth remembering that Blatter (whilst being Swiss) came via a FIFA backoffice route and beat the favourite, the then UEFA president Lennart Johannson, to the gig.
The rest of the world see nothing positive in having a UEFA kingpin getting the FIFA job. I think Platini will lose to the most broadly acceptable African or SouthAmerican candidate.

edit : hmmmm, I see a potential bet somewhere down the line :-)

Francie Barrett

Ridiculous.

LuckyLloyd

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

I doubt a European will ever win again, or especially not one so 'pro UEFA' as Platini. Worth remembering that Blatter (whilst being Swiss) came via a FIFA backoffice route and beat the favourite, the then UEFA president Lennart Johannson, to the gig.
The rest of the world see nothing positive in having a UEFA kingpin getting the FIFA job. I think Platini will lose to the most broadly acceptable African or SouthAmerican candidate.

edit : hmmmm, I see a potential bet somewhere down the line :-)

Fwiw, I like Platini. His reorganisation of European Club competitions has been very positive imo.

UnitedIrishman

What a massive fail of an event. The irony of Ginola being paid 250k to run for election by a fairly tiresome bookmaker to fight against corruption was bad enough, but when asked serious questions by the journalists he either didn't know what to say or the press officer had to cut in and stop the journalist in their track.

Muahahaha

I'd be more interested in a campaign locally to call John Delaney and the FAI out on voting for Sepp Blatter as FIFA president for the FIFTH time

thebaz

Vicxas wrote: »

I was reading somewhere that Ginola might not qualify to run, whats the criteria?

Well if Sepp Blatter passes the criteria , i reckon it can't be too hards to be fit & proper .

Besides he could play football, not sure the fat dictator ever did ?

mikeym

dreamers75 wrote: »

Platini has done a cracking job in UEFA so why not

You do Know he voted for Qatar to host the World Cup in 2022.


http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2014/11/06/platini-has-no-regrets-over-qatar-vote

Ol' Donie

Muahahaha wrote: »

I'd be more interested in a campaign locally to call John Delaney and the FAI out on voting for Sepp Blatter as FIFA president for the FIFTH time

Where might one go to read up about that? I knew Delaney was (and, indeed, is) a blithering disgrace, but hadn't realised that fact.

dreamers75

greendom wrote: »

and what's that got to do with this subject ?

Platini ex footballer.
Ginola ex footballer.

Platini head of UEFA
Ginola going for head of FIFA

Np

rob316

Just saw the presser from yesterday it was so bad he didn't have a clue.

Shame.

thebaz

rob316 wrote: »

Just saw the presser from yesterday it was so bad he didn't have a clue.

Shame.

Sadly Blatter is just a political monster , who knows how to play the adminanstion game , to boost his ever inflating ego, and to the detriment of football as a whole.

Boskowski

It does seem a bit of a stunt though.

I looked just briefly at his wikipedia record and he seems only have done a bit of modelling and a lot of punditry since he resigned from his playing career.
Surely you would need some experience working for a football association. And thats not even taking into account all the networking :pac: necessary to get yourself into a credible position for such an office.

Not a chance imo.

The_Kew_Tour

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/jan/17/david-ginola-fifa-presidency-bid

Love this piece by Daniel Taylor

Dirty Steve

What bothers me most about this is that PP are looking for £2,000,000 in kickstarting funding to back what is an advertising campaign.

And Ginola would be getting £130,000 of that 2 million. It's all very questionable.

TheDoc

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Because of a bit of messing on Twitter? A less than reputible bookie would be someone like betclic which has been known to rob players funds

Sorry only seeing this response now.

Multiple instances of not paying out bets in the Irish market, that rival bookies paid out on with no issues. I call them less then reputible as they have swindled themselves out of paying out punters, and from my few years in online poker there was some absolute horror stories. I had issues that were eventually resolved, but took nearly 4 months.

The fact its a "crowdfunding" thing should set of all the alarm bells. Thankfully people seem wise to whats going on, have raised less then 5% of the overall mount as of today.

greendom

dreamers75 wrote: »

Platini ex footballer.
Ginola ex footballer.

Platini head of UEFA
Ginola going for head of FIFA

Np

good point, well made. Personally I think Platini has been a pretty decent head of UEFA. Early impressions are that Ginola has little of Platini's nous but time will tell I suppose.

FortuneChip

Figo's adding his name to the list.

http://www.espnfc.com/fifa-world-cup/story/2269052/luis-figo-to-challenge-sepp-blatter-for-fifa-presidency

In the same spirit as Ginola's campaign but seems to have a little more weight behind it (PP involvement notwithstanding), but I still think that although their hearts are in the right place, they're playing on a lot of buzz words like "transparency" as the sole reason for their candidacy.

Pinturicchio

Ginola "campaign" is nothing more than advertising for Paddy Power. Pure and simple. He wouldn't even be allowed to run because (i) he hasn't been involved in football administration for at least 2 of the last 5 years and (ii) candidates aren't allowed to have any involvement with bookmakers.