Fifa Crisis : Football Soccer

Taking down a corrupt part of a company is no easy task, but yet it is possible. The main target to defeating FIFA is the sponsorships (Oliver). Since FIFA is a non-profit organization, they rely on their partners such as Adidas, Coca Cola, and Mcdonalds. Fifa is estimated to making about $45bn (Critchlow) from sponsorships. FIFA recently lost Sony and Emirates as a sponsor due to the corruption scandals. That meant that FIFA lost $420 million dollars

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

Based in Zurich, “The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)” is the international governing body of association football, futsal, and soccer. It has been recognized as the “United Nations of Football”, affiliated with 209 associations across the globe (FIFA, 2015). Like any other sport organization however, FIFA has long experienced allegations following the decision of Russia being awarded the 2018 World Cup and Quatar having the 2022 hosting rights. According to the reports, the United States Department of Justice reviewed the contracts related to the 2014 Brazil World Cup involving FIFA, commercial partners, and suppliers.

“Corruption in Australian sport is not a new phenomenon. A series of high-profile cases in Australia, combined with an increasing international focus, has seen a reassessment of Australian sport’s vulnerability to illegal activities such as match-fixing, use of inside information for betting purposes and the use of performance and image-enhancing drugs. This has led to the development and endorsement of national policies on match-fixing and doping, the establishment of sport integrity units, inclusion of specialist intelligence units in law enforcement and the creation of new match-fixing offences.”

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

Football continues to endure changes with regard to economic force. Following the seemingly unlimited supply of commercial opportunities, we’ve seen more cash flowing into the sport. The football world we live in today is something that transformed from traditional to modern, but even in a relatively short period of time, there are still massive changes occurring in terms of structure, operations, and even player mentality. Although there are numerous factors that contribute to these changes, money is definitely an element that changes the game.

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….

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

In May 2015, U.S. federal prosecutors released cases of corruption by officials and associates connected to FIFA, the governing body of all football. Nine current or former FIFA figures and five involved in sports marketing, were connected to wire fraud, racketeering, and money laundering. They were indicted on suspicion of receiving $150 million in bribes. The investigation focused on the officials that were bribed for their vote on the host of the next two World Cups that landed in Russia for 2018 and Qatar for 2022. Soccer federation officials were warned of the intense heat in Qatar months before Qatar won its bid for the 2022 World Cup. Because of the extreme heat in Qatar, human rights groups also warned FIFA that building the World

Corruption in soccer is a leading cause of biasedness in the game, and a major step must be taken to make the game of soccer less corrupt and fair. “The Beautiful Game” quoted by many supporters and followers. Soccer is the most loved and followed sports with about four billion followers and supporters throughout the world. The large fan base comes great responsibility to the governing bodies which manages the different competitions played throughout the world. Sepp Blatter, who served 17 years as the president of FIFA (The Federation International de Football Association) the most powerful and important governing body in soccer, has been taken to court for the charge of corruption and was banned for eight years to involve in any activity related to soccer. The lately reports came to show that FIFA officials have taken a total sum of $21 billion as bribe to vote for Qatar to host the 2022 world cup. The article “US Attorney General reveals FIFA corruption probe is ongoing as first trial approaches”, gives us a detail about how the officials has been taken to court for the charges of corruption. This article was published on January 14 by Rob Harris for The Independent. Also, the article “Corrupt

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.

1). Soon, after the creation of FIFA, they held the first FIFA congress on the 22nd of May, 1904, which had a team of representatives who signed the foundation act of FIFA document. The teams who signed the document are as the following: Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA), Union Belge des Sociétés de Sports (UBSSA), Dansk Boldspil Union (DBU), Nederlandsche Voetbal Bond (NVB), Madrid Football Club Svenska Bollspells Förbundet (SBF), Association Suisse de Football (ASF) (CFH, pars. 1).

According to McMillan and Gandz case study, FIFA has had both the success and its failures with the main issue on the case study been its scandals, which include corruption, bribery, and tax avoidance. Other issues highlighted also include FIFA sponsorship deals, reforms, and unfavorable workers’ conditions that has contributed to the attitudes of most of the employees . According to the Transparency International, corruption within FIFA might involve referees taking a bribe, clubs demanding kickbacks for player transfers, or companies seeing nPow (need for power) and government rigging the bids for construction contracts. The case study has only mentioned one successful high-profile lawsuit concerning FIFA corruption due to the allegation of plausible bribery surrounding the awarding of Russia and Qatar right to host 2018 and 2022 World Cup respectively.

1293). Bosman also took legal action against UEFA, the European Football Association, to the European Court of Justice in an attempt to invalidate UEFA’s “gentlemen’s agreement”. The gentlemen’s agreement, also known as the 3-plus-2 rule, allowed domestic leagues to set their own maximum number of foreign players that a particular club could have. The 3-plus-2 rule states that only three foreign players and two foreign players who had been in the country for more than five years could play on the field at the same time for a club in domestic matches. In April 1992, the Belgian Court of Justice declared no legal consequences for the suit, so Bosman decided to drop the charges against his club and the Belgian league in order to develop a new claim against UEFA. In his new claim, he stated that the 3-plus-2 rule and European transfer system breached the Articles 48, 85 and 86 of the Treaty of Rome, and they should be considered null and voided. (Lee, 1995)