2011 Dbq Persuasive Speech

Always wanting to better himself, having a passion for sports, mainly soccer or football, internationally, Blazer basically wanted to bring Fédération Internationale de Football Association, FIFA, to the United States. As the story goes, it happens Blazers gets it done among other things, working his way to the top of the FIFA committee board, making millions the international committee, but just like everything that goes up, it must come down. There were three major key players in the scandal: one being Blazer himself, Joseph Blatter, and Jack Warner attracted attention to themselves, particularly by the FBI. Hundreds and thousands, even millions of money being in places that they should not have been in. Lavish vacation trips, exclusive dinners, million dollar hotel rooms and huge amounts of money being used as payoffs are just to name a few were taken notice by the FBI. And just like the any old story, judgement day. It seems that though Blazer, just like any other person be willing to save their own hide, was willing to cooperate with the FBI into bring down this whole corruption cycle within

I did that so I could find some kind of reasoning for their actions, lessons I could learn from these previous situations, or how would I react? First, being part of the committee why were they in such denial of incidents occurring previously before the UEFA tournament? Was it because they didn’t want the world to see it or did they truly think nothing of it? What we can learn from these situations is the realization that politics are very much involved in sports. There can or will be certain groups that will take the platform that sports have and try to use it promote their cause. As a possible future administrator if we had a zero tolerance in policy by golly we would follow that policy. Possibly the Ukraine and Poland might have been a good time to show we will not put up with this behavior and would give them two options, one to move the tournament completely and secondly to let them host only if significant change has been made before the tournament. With being a local or citizen of those two countries is their behavior due to demographics slash cultural upbringing? There was some strong agreesive, and radical influences spread there from the World Wars

dollars, and a net profit of 72 million dollars. FIFA has cash reserves of over 1.4 billion U.S. dollars. This is a great deal of money and is at the center of the links between FIFA and corruption, bribery and vote-rigging.

Jasthi, helps the reader understand the negative financial outcomes of hosting a sporting event like the World Cup and what it does to the country’s economic status. Jasthi’s point is simple yet informative. He compares the spending from South Africa’s World Cup to Brazil’s World Cup. Jasthi argues that Brazil’s lack of budgeting led them spend three times more of what South Africa paid for in the 2010 World Cup. However, that was not the only concern that Jasthi discussed in the article. The other downfall of this spending was that Brazil invested too much money in rebuilding stadiums that were going to be used for a maximum of four games, and were never going to be re-visited after the world cup. Jasthi’s points were quick and concise to the reader, and helps the reader understand how the games can negatively effect the country if the country does not make smart financial

The image in the popular UK daily newspaper showed Blatter being showered with US dollar bills. All in all, although the money was fake, the image created controversy. The image portrayed high rank officials and upper class people in a whole, being money hungry. After a lot of investigation, it was found that the corruption had started long before time. More than a decade earlier from the time Blatter and other officials were convicted. Sepp Blatter was the man in power, he was head of FIFA and could bring a positive change but he misused his power. In the movie spider-man the conversion between two characters beautifully defines the job of peoples in authority. “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility” (Spider-Man). It is a quote said by Benjamin Parker, a character more commonly known as “Uncle Ben” in the Marvel movie series “Spider-Man”. This simply means if you have the ability to do something, make sure that you do it for the good of others, but a lot of people think that, once they have some form of power, they can usually laud it over people and abuse it. History has a lot of people showing them becoming corrupted because of great power. Media and literature portray upper class people who have power over others in a negative way. In the story Duty Patrick Rigg tries to portray his power by saying “I can produce my SIG any time I want and snuff out the fourteen lives in closest proximity to me and still have one bullet left for myself. I can kill the Ukrainian women sitting beside me on the uptown train, or Harrison Phelps, the shy man in my company’s bonds department” (Schickler 111). Patrick is a rich guy and gun owner and has great power over people that aren’t wearing a gun, so it is his responsibility not to abuse this kind of power. It shows how rich people belonging to upper class society have no regards for others life. This

FIFA has no credibility. Just look at where the next two World Cups are being played at. They must be wonderful footballing nations, right? Ha, not at all. In 2018, the world turns to Russia, who might have tampered with the 2016 U.S. election. Four years later, the world will be broiling in Qatar during winter un-the-less, who have violated humans rights by being stuck in the dark ages with slavery. And both countries were right in the middle of the FBI's investigation of FIFA's World Cup brides. Nothing FIFA does can be taken serious….

In defense of the companies, I think that they can bribe star athletes because it helps their businesses grow. When the players become pros, it helps the companies make more money because the pro players advertise

There are many ways the FIFA organization, fixes and commit fraud to win a match. One of them in specific is when they contact a important person attending or performing in the game. Then they try to bride them by giving them money that they will make in years of playing soccer. Even for refs that is

On May 27, 2015 fourteen defendants were named by the U.S. Department of Justice: nine officials from FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) and five corporate executives. Walter De Gregorio, head of FIFA communications, said this about the recent arrests, “This for FIFA is good, it’s not good in terms of image, and it’s not good in terms of reputation but in terms of cleaning up this is good”. These recent arrests are a good start to getting rid of corruption for good. FIFA is responsible for the world’s most popular sporting event, so for corruption to be in it is a huge situation. The corruption involved in FIFA right now could jeopardize the fans appreciation for the game on an internationally scale.The FIFA corruption

Fifa is been proven to be guilty and found out that both Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are corrupt. But to clear his name (Platini) he had to withdraw from the Fifa presidential election and along with him, Blatter was also banned for eight years from the beautiful game (football) after being found guilty of giving £1.3million in which Platini received in 2011.

Another captivating quote was focused on the challenges of reforming FIFA from its malfeasance. “No matter

Accounts trace the history of football (soccer) back thousands of years ago and through places like ancient China, Greece, and parts of Central America, all which claim to have started the sport. It was actually England that transformed the game, or what the British and many other people around the world call “Football”. How has that simple but beautiful game transformed into the money hungry industry which now generates about twenty-seven billion dollars (Black Marks Beautiful Game). Thanks to corruption (Berlin), Doping (Drepper), Money Laundering (“FBI 24 Years Bribery and Corruption”), the Violations of Basic Human Rights (Oliver), the world of football has grown dark.

In March 2014 allegations were made against FIFA Vice President Jack Warner, it is believed that him and his family were taking bribes of 2 million dollars. It is still unclear if these allegations are true or not but the FBI are still investigating. Recently the USA and Swiss governments have been cracking down on corruption and bribes in FIFA. When the USA government started looking in to allegations they discover more bribes and corruption in the ranks. The USA government discovered that pervious president João Havelange was paid millions of dollars for broadcasting rights of the World Cup. The president at the time of the allegations Sepp Blatter discovered the corruption and tried to cover it up when he took office. These allegations relate one of Animal Farms theme, corruption. In Animal Farm Napoleon, Snowball and the rest of the pigs are corrupted by power. When the pigs and the other animals overthrow Mr Jones, Napoleon and Snowball being one of the smartest animals assume the power and leadership. Just after Mr Jones is overthrown the pigs obey the rules and work as a team, leading and being selfless. Soon after that the power starts getting to their heads,

Why do you feel that the FIFA is the most corrupt organization in the world? FIFA is governed by Swiss laws where as leagues in the United States are governed by themselves. Many of the members apart of the FIFA are from all over the world so it’s hard to past judgment on the entire league.

There are a numerous amount of environmental issues plaguing the Rio Olympics. For example, there are human hazards, water contamination, pollution, zika and transportation. Human hazards are caused directly or indirectly by human actions. Water contamination plays a huge role in the Olympics because of the swimmers and divers. The area may look nice, but pollution especially in the water is horrible. There is trash all over the city and in the water. Diseases such as “zika” is having a terrible outbreak causing pregnant women to have serious birth defects. These issues should have been settled here before hosting the 2016 Olympics, and definitely must be stopped/cured. The olympics should not have been hosted in Rio because athletes are at risk due to water contamination, the area is so polluted, and people can become ill.