are affected due to if there will be another World Cup where they can show off their talents to all of the countries around the world and make a salary to provide for their families. The final peripheral stakeholder in this case has to be the fans due to the fact that they are the ones that fill the seats and have the World Cup make so much money in the first place and without them, there would not even be a World Cup. Also without funding there will be no FIFA organization. It is an absolute disgrace and one of the worst decisions that FIFA has ever made. It is without a doubt a symbol of the blatant corruption and back scratching that goes on in the 'world game ' and an affront to the history of the World Cup. Not to mention that stories continue to emerge of the systemic corruption that has occurred around the awarding of the World Cup rights.
What are the Possible Solutions to the Issue?
From what we know, FIFA is solely responsible for possible legal ramifications that can hurt the sport of football. For Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, in the article of the Independent, “It is understood this request will be for bans of several years, based on four potential ethics code breaches: mismanagement, conflict of interest, false accounting and failure to co-operate with, or criticizing, the ethics committee.” (2015). they are a conflict of interest where in a situation the concerns are or aim at two different parties which are incompatible. They are breaches of
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
Next, players that work very hard at the game they love, and play every game. They deserve that kind of money, but giving over 7 million dollars to players that don’t touch the field all year. That's just wrong and disrespectful, to the kids that don’t have a mom or dad, and that has lived outside every single day of their life. That’s just the saddest and horrible thing that I have experience in my life.
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
Different revelation has been made from the first trail of the local bodies corruption on The FA, Brazilian FA and others to the head of the soccer association. The authors have mainly argued about the effects and the work that have been done to stop corruption from soccer. Although many committees have been formed to investigate the situation of corruption in today’s soccer there have been a very little change to it. I believe the increasing corruption in soccer can have very bad effect on the game which can eventually lose millions of fans and followers. The corruption has caused very negative impact towards the next generation of players and supporters that their favorite game has been ruined mostly by some people with much control on it due to corruption. The main problem that have caused corruption in my view and many of the articles and journals on corruption on soccer is the unmanaged distributions of funds allocated only by certain number of people without discussing with the committee. The sole power of some people like the former president of FIFA Sepp Blatter has caused an unbalance in the account of these bodies. The details of the distribution of funds has to be transparent and selling their votes by taking money from someone has to be stopped in order to make this game meaningful
Not to be confused with the ‘golden whistle’ scandal which plagued Portuguese football a year earlier, "The Whistle Mafia" scandal of 2005 involved two top Brazilian referees being paid wads of cash to influence the outcome
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
In our socratic seminar about the article “Soccer’s Corrupt Soul,” we talked about FIFA’s deep-rooted corruption and where their greed has lead the World Cup’s future. FIFA is soccer’s main governing body, an oligarchy composed of very wealthy and powerful people. It has been discovered that these corporate bigwigs were associated with many deceitful and dishonest acts in the pursuit of making more money.
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.
FIFA has been at the center of a great deal of corruption during the last couple of years. There are endless topics to discuss on the matter of corruption and FIFA, but I wanted to focus on three of the biggest charges of corruption against FIFA, bribery, mistreatment of female athletes, and the use of slave labor to build stadiums to host their games. FIFA has been around for over a century and was a very respectable organization at one time, but that time is now over. This affects international business because there are currently 209 countries within FIFA. FIFA has a far reaching impact because soccer is the most popular sport in the world. To better understand why and how FIFA became so
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
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
Fifa has made £1,200,000,000 per year from sponsors, television and the World Cup. Fifa’s latest financial amount over the four years to the end of 2010 show the organisation has earned more than four billion. That's an increase of fifty-nine percent over the previous four year stretch which included the World Cup in Germany (BBC, pars. 1). Its broadcast rights and marketing which are leading the boom of course, and Fifa is riding the wave that's thrown the Premier League skywards too (BBC, pars. 2). Fifa has banked $631m to its reserves, which now stand at $1.2 billion (BBC, pars. 3). Fifa says of the money it raised, seventy percent was ploughed back into the game by staging tournaments and investing in projects. Fifa put $794m into
As stated before no two people are the same, and now two people’s thoughts are the same. But at the end of the day everyone’s views on ethics boils down to knowing right or wrong. For example, if someone were to rob a bank that person knows for a fact that is it wrong and that he may go to jail. There would be no “Maybe it was right for him to rob the bank.” This is the same for FIFA. Allowing bribes to be placed on the next place that should hold the world cup
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.
With normative stakeholder theory one tries to explain (in these settings) why football clubs should take into account the interests of the stakeholders. It is easy to sympathize with the customer group in this matter. They are the foundation stone that has built the club through the years and they have invested money, emotions and their private time. But they are not as important as they once was for the club. This given that another stakeholder group (Suppliers e.g. broadcasting companies, sponsors etc.) now serves the business with monetary funding’s, hence the times have changed. Ultimately though, the suppliers will almost certainly vanish if the customers stop buying the product. Shareholders and employees can easier than the customers in this case find another business to join, they are not exclusive in the same way as the customers.