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former professional soccer star jimmy conrad stopped by today.discussed results with scarlet fu, mark crumpton, and -- >> there's a lot of corruption that exists. not only with fifa. if you are in it for a long time, you understand this is part of it. it is bad from a voter perspective. you are voting for two different versions of blatter, the man who doesn't have any idea or the man who is the most corrupt in the entire world. scarlett: a jordanian prince was also in the running, but with through candidacy? wast became clear he not going to win the absolute majority and become president himself, to spare everyone the next round. i surprise he got as many as 73 votes. my most generous estimate was 60, and he went far beyond that. e south american teams and central american teams, to do that. >> i was surprised. i will be interested to see what the repercussions will be. if you go against president blatter, that things usually happen. >> the u.s. asked there be a paper ballot so sepp blatter could never know who voted for what. did you hear people
former professional soccer star jimmy conrad stopped by today.discussed results with scarlet fu, mark crumpton, and -- >> there's a lot of corruption that exists. not only with fifa. if you are in it for a long time, you understand this is part of it. it is bad from a voter perspective. you are voting for two different versions of blatter, the man who doesn't have any idea or the man who is the most corrupt in the entire world. scarlett: a jordanian prince was also in the running, but...
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we will we speaking with jimmy conrad, a retired soccer player who played on the u.s. want to get his take on what the repercussions are because he has seen it on the field and he can compare and contrast his time versus playing at a fee for event.- fifa the culture is one of retribution. a lot of people talk about this. >> brenda gave me the best explanation. i asked why outside of the realm of sports, outside of foot all, soccer, should anybody care about this and he said, it is about power. it is about loading onto power and about disturbing power, especially to the nations that may hold -- host world cup games and as you said, will the u.s. get smacked down because it was the one that alerted this was authorities and said we need to haul these guys in? big sports have a weekend. this week.vens i found this great chart that said in game seven referees and hockey 10 to let a lot of stuff go by. there are fewer penalties than in the regular season which is the dotted line. of theo versus the rest playoff series. in game seven you get less than 10 minutes of penalties
we will we speaking with jimmy conrad, a retired soccer player who played on the u.s. want to get his take on what the repercussions are because he has seen it on the field and he can compare and contrast his time versus playing at a fee for event.- fifa the culture is one of retribution. a lot of people talk about this. >> brenda gave me the best explanation. i asked why outside of the realm of sports, outside of foot all, soccer, should anybody care about this and he said, it is about...
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for more perspective, we are joined by jimmy conrad, a defender of the men's u.s. national team, briefly served as captain and played in the 2006 fifa world cup. he is with kick tv. also with this is brendan greeley who has been following this story. reaction, first off being elected. it took a second round. there was a lot of corruption that existed not only with fifa but all of its tentacles. it is said from a voter's perspective. you are voting for two different seniles of blatter, the old guy or the one who is the most corrupt. scarlet: a jordanian prince was in the running but he withdrew his candidacy. guest: he with drew when he -- he became clear he would not win a majority. that he got as many as 73 votes. i had a whip count before hand and my most generous estimate was 60. he had to have picked up some south american teams and perhaps even some central american teams to do that. were you surprised? will see what the repercussions will be. >> evidently the u.s. soccer asked that there would be a paper ballot so seth blatter could never know who voted for w
for more perspective, we are joined by jimmy conrad, a defender of the men's u.s. national team, briefly served as captain and played in the 2006 fifa world cup. he is with kick tv. also with this is brendan greeley who has been following this story. reaction, first off being elected. it took a second round. there was a lot of corruption that existed not only with fifa but all of its tentacles. it is said from a voter's perspective. you are voting for two different seniles of blatter, the old...
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joining me now, jimmy conrad. >> let's talk about blatter. without a real major issue. he's now in the process of saying i know there's a whole lot of alleged corruption but i'm the guy to solve it. >> that sounds about right for him. he seems to playing that card of clueless old man that he didn't really know what was going on and it's surprising to me that voters want to put somebody in charge that seems that inept. of course, the other side of him being a leader that he could be the most corrupt person of all time so it's interesting to me how it even gets to this point. but even though he's still in office or whatever ends up happening, something serious will happen with blatter. the u.s. will come after him. he's going to get indicted at some point. there's no way it doesn't get to him in the future. >> jimmy, so far, though nothing has been talked about as far as blatter himself, no allegations, nothing as of this point. but today we've heard that the british serious fraud office may get involved in the fifa investigations. is this like
joining me now, jimmy conrad. >> let's talk about blatter. without a real major issue. he's now in the process of saying i know there's a whole lot of alleged corruption but i'm the guy to solve it. >> that sounds about right for him. he seems to playing that card of clueless old man that he didn't really know what was going on and it's surprising to me that voters want to put somebody in charge that seems that inept. of course, the other side of him being a leader that he could be...
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. >>> jimmy conrad is a retired major league soccer player currently the host of kick tv a youtube channel dedicated to soccer. he covered the 2014 welcome n brazil. it's great to have you here. fifa's been plagued by acquisitions of bribery for decades as we heard in chris' report. over 24 years they've been investigated. does this come as a surprise to anyone? >> the only surprise is that someone had the gall to take on this behemoth of an organization, an organization that has unchecked power. was nice to see loretta lynch step up and say we're taking you to task. we'll maybe get some of your lower end people, it you we're coming for you sepp blatter estimate point. >> let's talk about sepp blatter. fifa intends on moving ahead with the re-election of this president coming up on friday. his name, sepp blatter. he's held the office since '98. is expected to be re-elected despite the scandal. no charges were brought against him. you say that they have their sights on him. >> it's interesting that him as a leader, right. there's two facets of this. was he a guy at the top who had no idea w
. >>> jimmy conrad is a retired major league soccer player currently the host of kick tv a youtube channel dedicated to soccer. he covered the 2014 welcome n brazil. it's great to have you here. fifa's been plagued by acquisitions of bribery for decades as we heard in chris' report. over 24 years they've been investigated. does this come as a surprise to anyone? >> the only surprise is that someone had the gall to take on this behemoth of an organization, an organization that has...