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World Cup 2010, Brought To You By “India’s Enron” Posted: 08 Jan 2009 08:10 AM PST World Cups traditionally (and by “traditionally,” I mean “ever since Sepp Blatter made them commercial whoreathons”) have six main sponsors (which is actually extremelely silly when you think about it). But looks like Satyam (an Indian computer company) could be about to lose their spot among the hallowed six for 2010, after a massive massive accounting fraud. Basically Satyam has been over-reporting its worth (aka “lying”) as “founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju admitted on Wednesday to inflating Satyam’s reported cash and bank balances by over 50 billion rupees ($1 billion)”, and earning Satyam the unwanted tag of “India’s Enron”. Satyam was the first Indian company to sponsor the World Cup, and would obviously have benefited from the massive exposure of 2010. But sources are now suggesting that FIFA could be about to rethink the deal, to avoid being sponsored by a company in disrepute. Which means a gap could be about to open up as a WC sponsor alongside Budweiser, McDonalds, Castrol, Continental and MTN. And I have an idea. World Cup Blog should sponsor the World Cup. We might struggle to afford it (I have £1 and 22 pence on my desk here, plus one American quarter) but at least then they’d let us use the damn logo.

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World Cup Whistleblower Gunned Down Posted: 07 Jan 2009 10:27 AM PST Wish I had some good news to share about World Cup 2010. But I don’t. Earlier this week Jimmy Mohlala - a member of the WC organizing committee, former South African FA executive and Speaker of the Mbombela local municipality - was murdered outside his home by unknown gunmen. Nothing good about that. But this tragedy is made even more depressing by the fact that Mohlala had a reputation as a World Cup 2010 stadium corruption whistleblower. There’s an informative description of the alleged corruption in Bill Archer’s great article, but here’s the gist of it: Under South Africa’s “Land Redistribution Act”, large tracts were given (or given back) to tribes and clans who could show historical ownership rights. The site for the Nelspruit Stadium [aka Mbombela Stadium] was given to a clan who in turn hired the Matsafeni Trust to manage it. But when that site was chosen for the stadium, a trust administrator sold 6000 acres of land he didn’t own to the municipality for one Rand, or about eleven cents US. It was later revealed that the administrator is a business partner with the Mayor and another local politician. Imagine that. Jimmy Mohlala was working to expose the swindle. And now he’s dead. Police are working on the case etcetera, but there’s a definite feeling in the air that this wasn’t just a random murder. Obviously I don’t have knowledge of South African politics and don’t want to make any big allegations, but if Mohlala’s murder and his whistleblowing turn out to be connected, then I hope FIFA have the decency not to participate in the inevitable attempt to sweep this scandal under the rug.

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Argentina v Brazil Translates To The Air Waves Posted: 06 Jan 2009 02:00 PM PST Our tips hotline (1-800-HOT-TIPS) received a great email today from Scott J on the spilling over of the Argentina-Brazil war of South American football, giving us a clear cut message as to its prominence: it knows no bounds. Scott, in Argentina, is watching Conan O’Brien (American talk show host who is the bastard love child of Tarja Halonen & Gheorghe Muresan) which is broadcast in English and subtitled in Spanish. Then the subject of Pele comes up. This can only go well. The interview with Judah Friedlander (comedian type) swings the topic of convo to soccer and this is what transpires in spoken English: J.F. - Do you know who Pelé is? C.O'B. - Sure, he's the greatest soccer player of all time. J.F. - Yeah, he's my father He’s not but…..wait a second, don’t quote me on that. And the corresponding translation into Spanish Argentine: J.F. - Conoces a Pelé? C.O'B. - Claro, es uno de los mejores jugadores de todos los tiempos. J.F. - Sí. Es mi padre. Magically, Pele goes from the greatest player in spoken English to one of the greatest players post-translation. Good to know subtitling in Argentina is subjective. Amazing how such a subtle tweak within one simple sentence can define a major part of an entire continent’s culture.

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