FIFA’s negotiators lied repeatedly to MasterCard, including when they
assured MasterCard that, consistently with MasterCard’s first right to acquire,
FIFA would not sign a deal for the post-2006 sponsorship rights with anyone else
unless it could not reach agreement with MasterCard.
FIFA’s negotiators lied to VISA when they repeatedly responded to the
direct question of whether MasterCard had any incumbency rights by assuring
VISA that MasterCard did not.
FIFA’s negotiators provided VISA with blow-by-blow descriptions of the
status of the FIFA-MasterCard negotiations while concealing from its long-time
partner MasterCard both the fact of the FIFA-VISA negotiations as well as the
status of those negotiations – an action FIFA’s president admitted would not be
“fair play.”
assured MasterCard that, consistently with MasterCard’s first right to acquire,
FIFA would not sign a deal for the post-2006 sponsorship rights with anyone else
unless it could not reach agreement with MasterCard.
FIFA’s negotiators lied to VISA when they repeatedly responded to the
direct question of whether MasterCard had any incumbency rights by assuring
VISA that MasterCard did not.
FIFA’s negotiators provided VISA with blow-by-blow descriptions of the
status of the FIFA-MasterCard negotiations while concealing from its long-time
partner MasterCard both the fact of the FIFA-VISA negotiations as well as the
status of those negotiations – an action FIFA’s president admitted would not be
“fair play.”