Oh man, FIFA just can't stop this week.
On Sunday, the organization's former president Jack Warner, who was arrested during the massive takedown last week, showed up on his personal website to declare his innocence.
But this is not Warner's first time to the party — the 72-year-old official fielded a 2011 accusation involving he and a Qatari official, to which he pretty much just said "Zionism."
This time around, Warner showed up in a YouTube video with a printed copy of an article from the American satirical news site, The Onion titled: “FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup in the United States.”
See? Warner told us. This here is problem. Not the massive corruption, years of power abuse and rampant bribery. My arrest is all because the US didn’t get to host.
“The US applied to hold the World Cup in 2022 and they lost the bid to Qatar — a small country, an Arabic country, a Muslim country,” Warner went on, “I could understand the US embarrassment.”
And likely he could understand the embarrassment. Since then, the Internet's been having a great time making fun of him. Warner caught on and took down the original video and replaced it with another, Onion-less edit.
