Worawi Makudi
Worawi Makudi (Thai: ว รวี ร์ มะ กู ดี , spoken: [ wɔːráwiː mákuːdiː ]; born November 29, 1951 in Thailand ) is a Thai football official.
Worawi Makudi was general secretary of the Thai Football Association for eleven years before he was elected association president in 2007. From 1997 to 2015 he was a member of the FIFA Executive Committee and Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Futsal and Beach Soccer, as well as a member of the Committee for Referees and the Organizing Committee for the World Cup. In January 2011 he was confirmed as a candidate for re-election until 2015 by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) .
Worawi is a member of the Muslim minority in Thailand and studied in Kuwait . He is considered a confidante of the Qatari football official Mohamed bin Hammam .
Worawi also participates in Thai politics. He is a board member of the Pheu Thai Party and was appointed the Thai government's trade representative by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra after its election victory .
Corruption allegations
Worawi has been criticized for years because of allegations of corruption. He is said to have upgraded his own property with funds from the GOAL development aid program. In mid-December 2011, however, Worawi was exonerated from Sepp Blatter, the controversial FIFA chairman, despite overwhelming evidence of this fact. Worawi had submitted exonerating documents, it said. However, no further details were given. Worawi refused to be interviewed. The Germany radio , however exclusively learned to what documents it was: It was only with the date of 16 November 2011 Worawi had transferred the land to Thailand Football Association. A report commissioned by FIFA by the Zurich law firm Niederer, Kraft & Frey records this. The certified transfer only happened eight years after Worawi made the promise and applied for the GOAL money. And only after FIFA gave him a second deadline of December 1 to provide documents. Whether he lied at the first deadline and submitted falsified documents, as Thai sources suspect, cannot be said. FIFA does not answer this or many other questions on this matter.
On September 14, 2012, a Thai government spokesman announced that the Thai Football Association may be forced to disband over allegations against Worawi (of having built the Thai Premier League and a marketing company to make a profit) Association was not allowed to make profits. A week later, Worawi denied all fraud allegations to the press. In particular, he called "ridiculous" allegations made by a Korean company that he, Worawi, wrongly and prematurely terminated a four-year exclusive broadcast rights agreement worth $ 2.4 million a year. On the part of the Koreans, the Thai Football Association is facing a lawsuit worth millions, meanwhile Worawi has announced a counterclaim.
On December 18, 2012, the Swiss medium wrote 20 Minuten about the Council of Europe’s announcement that it would be scrutinizing corruption in FIFA as a whole: "Makudi does a lot for money. In the summer of 2000 - shortly before the 2006 World Cup was awarded - he transferred one Company of the German television rights dealer Leo Kirch a substantial amount. The Thai voted for Germany. According to insiders, applicants for the World Cup know what they have in Makudi. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ WORAWI MAKUDI NEW PRESIDENT OF THAI FA. (No longer available online.) Aseanfootball.org, March 19, 2007, archived from the original on June 19, 2008 ; accessed on February 22, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ MAKUDI Worawi- Thailand. FIFA, accessed March 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Jens Weinreich: Million deals in the football family. Deutschlandfunk, September 13, 2011.
- ↑ Piyanart Srivalo, Khanittha Thepphajorn, Tanatpong Kongsai: Yingluck government defends appointment of reds. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Nation , August 31, 2011.
- ↑ www.dradio.de - Blatter exonerates corrupt functionaries
- ↑ http://www.sport1.de/de/fussball/fus_international/newspage_612050.html
- ↑ http://sports.ndtv.com/football/news/item/196824-thailands-football-chief-denies-fraud-allegations
- ↑ http://www.nationmultimedia.com/sports/Worawi-to-counter-sue-over-Korean-claims-30190841.html
- ↑ http://www.20min.ch/sport/fussball/story/Europarat-nnahm-Fifa-unter-die-Lupe-28544336
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Makudi, Worawi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Thai football official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thailand |