Russian
Collusion & Meddling @ FIFA2018
By MIKOspace
It was a historic and memorable
Sunday. On 17 June 2018, the world
witnessed France’s 4-2 win over Croatia in the FIFA World Cup Final in Moscow;
marking the second time in 20 years that France won the World Cup. An early 18th minute own-goal by
Croatian star player Mario Mandzukic
set the stage for a new generation of French soccer players in Kylian Mbappe,
Antoine Griezmann and Paul Pogba to steal the hearts of everyone with their spectacular
footwork and 3 more goals in the newly renovated Luzhniki Stadium, the largest
stadium in Russia and Eastern Europe as well as the 8th largest in
Europe. Mario redeemed himself before
full-time by scoring the last goal of the night to add to his team-mate Ivan
Perisic’s goal in the first half. French
President Emmanuel Macron, sitting with Russian
President Vladimir Putin at the VIP Section, was photographed leaping in
jubilant joy when the final whistle blew.
As celebrations exploded in Paris’
Champs-Elysee Avenue as well as in the Croatian Bana Jelacica Square at the
centre of Zagreb, none of their passionate and enthusiastic supporters knew
about the gathering storm coming from the greatest football and FIFA scandal of
all times!
Did the French collude with the Russians to win the 2018
FIFA World Cup?
And did the Russians meddle in the
fixtures, logistics, play books and conduct of the 64 matches or in any other
manner or shape to assure France of her long-awaited historic victory?
Days before the Opening Ceremony on 14
June 2018, FIFA had received an 18-page complaint consisting, among other
documents, sworn affidavits detailing meetings and emails between certain
senior French and Russian politicians, as well as FIFA and national sports
officials concerning the outcome of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Since they contained no specific direct evidence
of any kind relating to the 2018 World Cup, FIFA alerted Interpol who then
authorized secret surveillance as well as wire-tapping, emails and mobile communications
monitoring of the Russian and French officials named in the complaint and
affidavits, together with several unnamed others whom they were in contact with. In an unusual departure from protocol,
Interpol did not inform either the French or Russian enforcement authorities of
the open criminal investigations.
The investigators studied the Moscow World
Cup schedule and fixture which was announced by FIFA on 1 December 2017. Prima facie, the 2018 World Cup fixture was
not particularly unusual. On hindsight,
one is drawn to the fact that Russia (Group A), France (Group C) and Croatia
(Group D) are in separate Groupings.
However, in the actual match fixture, France would meet EITHER Russia or
Croatia as the latter progress (successfully) in their respective games.
Croatia beat Russia 4-3 on penalty
kicks on 7 July 2018, after a 2-2 draw that included goals by both sides in the
30 minutes of extra time. Croatia thus
created her own path to meet France (after beating Belgium) in the Cup Finale. Did Russia deliberately let Croatia win? Russian interference and collusion would of
course be too obvious if she were to meet France and resulted in a French
victory.
In any case, the Croatian Team was
not getting any easy co-operation from the Russian hosts at their training base
at the St Petersburg’s Lesnaya Rapsodiya Resort on the shores of Bolshoye
Semaginskoye Lake, Leningrad Region, which has a modern stadium built specially
for the 2018 World Cup. The Croatian
Team was personally supervised by a senior FSB Officer. The FSB is Russia’s principal national
security agency and the successor to the former KGB.
The Croatian Team had requested for
30 bicycles for their training, but was disallowed. They were instead directed to the exclusive
use of the 25-meter long panoramic swimming pool and the gym room. According to the Report, the Croatians were
extremely agitated and anxious by the refusal.
Was this a Russian ploy calculated to unbalance the Croatian players in
order to impact their World Cup game, especially in the Final against the
French? Further investigations are
certainly needed.
Compared to the Croatian Team, the French
Team stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn, New Rifa, located at a tranquil location
in the beautiful forested area of Moscow Oblast. It offers a peaceful oasis in the countryside
with easy access to Moscow city center and all of Moscow’s airports via the New
Riga highway.
The French victory was an unexpected
surprise to most soccer buffs, but not to the Interpol investigators. By the end of the Final Game on 17 June 2018,
the French victory answered many questions which they had developed during the
investigations and incidental indirect questioning of several hundred people,
among whom were several unsuspecting persons of interest.
In the evening of 17 June 2018 into
the night and the next day, before departure of the various team, Interpol also
secured the active co-operation of Russian enforcement authorities as well as
the British Scotland Yard after a quick briefing of their investigations status. An Interpol Team also headed to Zagreb ahead
of the returning Croatian Team to continue the investigations in Croatia. Another Interpol Team similarly headed to
Paris. All players, and particularly the
goal-scorers, are expected to be vigorously questioned by Interpol and FIFA
officials.
One can expect Croatian player Mario
Mandzukic to be questioned in
details, together with the match video, on his own-goal which gave France her
early lead in the Final Game.
Mario has already signed a US$9million
book deal with a French publisher for a “tell-all” book on how Croatia got into,
and lost, the FIFA2018 World Cup Finals, which would be titled “What Happened”.
In “What Happened”, Mario promised to
lay out how the 2018 World Cup was marked by an unprecedented assault on his
beloved soccer game by foreign adversarial forces. He would analyse the
evidence of Russian collusion and meddling by connecting the dots to show just
how dangerous the forces are that shaped the final outcome of FIFA2018 World Cup,
and why all soccer lovers need to understand them to protect the integrity of the
game in the future.
By midnight, Interpol had managed to
seize and uploaded the messages and social media accounts from the mobile
phones, and obtained the email accounts, of all the players and officials of
the Russian, French and Croatian Teams.
The British Scotland Yard
investigators also wanted to know of any unusual interference which resulted in
England’s devastating 2-1 defeat by a less experienced Croatian Team in the
Semi-Finals. The demoralized English
Team subsequently lost their will to prevail against a better Belgium Team to
lose 2-0 and be denied even the 3rd position. And Belgium’s odd to win the World Cup was
12-1 compared to England’s 20-1.
Interestingly, there were some
“love-bird” chats between several pairs of Croatian and French players, and
Russian-French officials. Consistent
references to Russian sources regarding “France will win” and “Croatia would
lose” appeared frequently and alarming enough to pursue these conversations
further. There was also a reference to
some kind of “insurance policy” to guarantee a French FIFA2018 victory.
What is the alleged “insurance policy” to guarantee a
French victory?
This had led investigators to examine
the FIFA drug tests protocols and actual practice in the 2018 Games. Extra urine samples were taken from all the
other Teams in the Finals. Drug
retesting was also ordered, again, after the end of the Final whistle, and
samples taken in the respective Teams’ locker rooms.
Investigators wondered whether
“positive” drug test results would be used to discredit a Croatian cup victory,
so as to assure a French victory no matter whatever the outcome may be. If true, this would never be known.
It was rumored that the Russians had a video showing the Croatian Team partying wildly with Russian
prostitutes, showing sex orgies as well as the players being urinating upon by
the prostitutes. Together with “fake”
drug test results, the video would also discredit any Finals victory by the
Croatians, which would hand the FIFA Cup to France. Is this also part of the “insurance policy”
to guarantee a French victory?
Again, the investigators wanted to
know whether and how the France-Australia match could have been interfered with
to produce a French victory which led her eventually to the Finals to meet
Croatia.
The key unknown questions to be unraveled by the
investigators relate to motives. Why do
the Russians want France to win the FIFA World Cup 2018?
I think the answer is energy. Russia
is rich in energy resources. Russia has the world’s largest known natural gas
reserves, with the second largest coal reserves, and has the world’s 8th
largest oil reserves. In contrast, France
derives about 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy, due to her policy on
energy security. This share is likely to be reduced to 50% by 2025. Currently, France is the world's largest net
exporter of electricity due to very low cost of generation, and receives over 3
billion Euros annually.
Russian strategic desire is a
pipeline through France and Spain to the Atlantic and the Northern Mediterranean. Most of Europe is dependent on Russia for
energy already, especially Germany, except the United Kingdom (UK), France and
Spain. Post-Brexit, Russia expects UK to
be hungry for energy since her power imports from Europe has increased by 52% over
the past 3 years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and French
President Emmanuel Macron met for the first time on 30 May 2017. At that time, President Macron had chastised
Russian media and parties for attempting to meddle and interfere in the French
General Elections. They met again on the
24 May 2018, this time discussing Russian-European relations, the Iran nuclear
deal as well as Ukraine and trade issues.
By their 2nd meeting, they
have discovered substantial areas of strong mutual interest in power and
energy. They agreed for French energy
giant Total to take a 10% stake in a Russian Novatek-led Arctic LNG-2 project which would produce
liquefied natural gas from beneath the Artic ice-cap. Through Total, France now partners with the
world 2nd largest natural gas producer, Russia, after the USA.
At the same time, Russia’s Rosatom,
the supplier of uranium enrichment services and owns 20% of US uranium through
UraniumOne, have also strengthened its client partnership with French companies
Electricite de France (EDF), Schneider Electric, Assystem and others, for joint
nuclear power plant projects in 3rd countries. Russia nuclear energy deals with Egypt
already exceed US$60 billion.
Without any doubt, France’s FIFA 2018
World Cup victory has both short and long-term priceless value to President
Emmanual Macron in political, social and economic terms. This fact is not lost on President Vladimir
Putin. Perhaps, and maybe, the FSB also has
“something” on Macron, as they seem to have on other world leaders, so as to
guarantee Macron’s continuous co-operation?
The investigations into Russian collusion
and meddling will continue until the next FIFA 2022. This could very well be a political
“witch-hunt” where nothing really matters would be found. Would FIFA2018 World Cup Champion France be
disqualified as a result of the investigations, a first in FIFA history?! Imagine FIFA Qatar 2022 World Cup without
France?
BTW, isn’t Qatar also the world
largest producer of LNG (Liquefied nitrogen gas)? Just coincidence? Maybe.
Time will tell.
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6 comments:
Britain have an axe to grind against Russia. It was unable to provide convincing proof that Russian novichok nerve gas was used to poison spy agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter. Scotland Yard has resorted to casting aspersions on Russia over France winning the 2018 World Cup. Conspiracy theories are part and parcel of faked news which western media excelled in cooking up. France deserved its victory over Croatia. After failing to make it to the finals. England is full of sour grapes.
Frankly, East European Bloc countries are infamous for throwing away matches for the MONIES.
Frenchy celebrating Whats their Centinenial would be ecstatic to win the World Cup.
The Frenchy are also world class CUNNING people. They feigned and cheated FOR the sake of winning and been their equally cunning AMERICUNTS masters side kick for so long.
Just see the Missed penalty kick by the Russian kicker in the mandatory penalty wins. Croatia, been previously part of the Russian Federation can be cajoled to take the bait.
Also, Croatia had been known to throw away matches in the World Cup series of yesteryears.
So, no surprise this one.
Sports and politics are no longer separate. Even before the World Cup began, there were attempts by England and pro-American stooges to boycott the World Cup just to embarrass Russia. Fear of action by FIFA save the day for Russia.
Of course. They colluded to destroy democratic countries especially usa. They are anti democratic aka communistic. Luckily Trump discovered that. There are also many commie infiltrators in eu parliament. Head of EU Juncker even celebrated marxist day although communism is totalitarian and has destroyed many people lives.
Actually the world cup is a farce. The top players did not go there to play soccer at their best. Why would they want to risk injury and jeopardise their position at the club when they are already being paid sky high salaries by those clubs?
It is those players who are not top draw at clubs who will try to perform well and get noticed by top clubs, who may then signed them on with fantastic salaries. So, the world cup is not actually a showpiece of top players giving off their best skills. Far from it. It is, as I would say, a farce clear and simple.
I have given up watching soccer since the multi million dollar salaries and transfer money reared it ugly head.
The biggest losers are the spectators who have to pay high admission charges to feed the egos of the multi million dollar players. Some entrance fees to games in UK are simply atrocious to say the least.
b the bastard (cross-bread between Americunts and Beastly X'tians) is spouting rubbish again.
Whenever he failed to take his medications in time, he becomes hysterically xenophobic. Half of his brain malfunctions and he goes off-tangent, and mentally imbalanced, like some drunkard mumbling while lying down in a dark corner of a dirty and filthy backlane.
It is too late now to find any cure for his mental sickness. The medications are meant to just keep him calm and sedated. Otherwise, he would go into a frenzied state and started attacking just anybody.
So, all readers here, please beware of this b, who can also betray his own ancestors in order to gain favour from his White Supremacist Master.
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