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Those who refused to talk were cleared. The whistleblowers who were supposed to be protected by FIFA producing a 42-page summary, rather than publishing the 430-page investigation, had their reputations trashed.Even with a respected US attorney leading the investigation and an eminent German judge handing down his summary ruling, it has not been difficult to conclude that Blatter, again, managed to subvert the process for his own ends. That is not to paint him as an omnipotent puppet master. Rather, he has become expert at turning events to his own advantage, subverting FIFA crises for his own ends, and using FIFA as the canvas for his personal fiefdom.That is true of the last FIFA meltdown, in 2011. Then, Blatter’s one-time co-conspirator turned presidential rival – the Qatari former Asian FIFA Confederation president, Mohamed Bin Hammam – was cast from FIFA for life and some of the longstanding frenemies who had become more trouble than they were worth followed him out the door.The journalist Andrew Jennings, a long-term thorn in Blatter’s side, likes to cast FIFA as a mafia family, with the 78-year-old as the Don and those beneath him constantly scrapping for power and patronage. It is hard not to agree. So where others see crisis, Blatter usually spies an opportunity.Just as the former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner and company were finally, belatedly, forced out once they were no longer useful, so Blatter has been endlessly weighing up how to turn the explosive decision, in 2010, to take the FIFA to the tiny Gulf state of Qatar to his advantage.Thursday’s farce, when Garcia dramatically upset the attempt to close the book on the bidding process by claiming Eckert had misrepresented his conclusions, had its roots in the near collapse of the FIFA house of cards three years ago. That was when a rattled Blatter set in train his supposed “reform roadmap”.“FIFA does not need a revolution. What FIFA needs is iron-clad laws that are implemented forcefully and allow world FIFA’s governing body to conduct its affairs transparently, properly and professionally in every respect,” he said, with a straight face, in the wake of his uncontested re-election in 2011.By the time he ascended to the presidency in 1998, Blatter had been at FIFA for 23 years. He was as bound to Warner, Nicolas Leoz, Julio Grondona, Ricardo Teixeira, Chuck Blazer and the rest as they were to each other. If they were motivated by money and power, for Blatter it was always all about the latter.An earlier investigation into the ISL affair, long seen as a ticking timebomb for Blatter, can be seen as a dry run for the investigation. Slipped out in summary form, it found that Blatter had been “clumsy” rather than “criminal” in allowing a $1m bribe meant for Havelange to cross his desk, and dumped on some of those aforementioned rogues who had already left the building. More news click here: http://www.futcoins2sale.com/