Fifa's Involvement Of Corruption

Where would you rather live, the United States or Qatar? Easy, United States, but what if you had the choice between the United States or Qatar, but if you chose Qatar you will be given five million dollars and you only had to be there for 3 weeks. Okay, most of you reasonable people would choose Qatar, and I would imagine most of you would do it for the money. FIFA or the International Federation of Associated Football (Soccer) was bribed into making that same decision over the 2022 World Cup (Berlin), which is without a doubt the most watched and visited sporting event in the world, and now it will be witness in one of the smallest and hottest countries in the world. Now this raises the question on how these very prominent issues such as corruption (Berlin), Doping (Drepper), Money Laundering (FBI 24 Years Bribery and Corruption), the Violations of Basic Human Rights

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

Originally I remember hearing about a scandal of sorts during the last world cup but I never bothered to delve into it since I never cared much for sports in the first place. I find the whole situation to be extremely sketchy. Starting off, the 2022 World Cup was announced to be held in Qatar, a place that not only has no long-tradition of soccer, but has a relatively hot climate that reaches up to 113 degrees in the Summer, which

This world cup location was very controversial because of Brazil’s economic status. In order to host the world cup, Brazil’s government had to build lots of extremely large, extremely expensive, soccer arena’s and stadiums. They spent billions of dollars on them. And because of this, Brazil had to close down school’s because they had no money to pay the teachers with. There have been 19 World Cups since the first one in 1930.

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….

As of today there are several ongoing corruption scandals, ranging from the use of illegal substances, bribery, and many others. Not only is corruption found in professional sports but it is also becoming more evident in college sports and even in high school sports. We live in a world where athletes are taught they must do whatever it takes to win, even if it means cheating. Corruption in professional sports has changed the sports industry, creating an unfair and unloyal sense of competition within different professional sports. It is presented in different forms today, and stricter laws should be sanctioned upon corruption

The social and economic implications that the World Cup and the Summer Olympics have could be positive if transparency within Brazilian government was available. A transparent dialogue and relationship must be created between the government, local and state authorities, and the citizens who are affected by these huge sporting events. Through transparency and discussion, many solutions can exist such as fair compensation for being displaced, and options to move elsewhere . People should not be forced to leave their homes and become

In the article “ROI for Rio? Economists question wisdom of hosting Olympics”, Craig Dale (2016) discusses about the economic problem of Rio Olympic Games, the history and malpractice of the Olympic Games and the benefits of the Olympic Games for hosting countries. First, the author described that the economy of Brazil was positive and developing well when Rio won the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. However, now Brazil suffered terrible recession and the government is facing an impeachment trial. Rio does not have enough money to host this game. Second, the author explored the history and malpractice of the Olympic Games. Countries spent more and more money and always spent more than they planned to host the Olympic Games. In the

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

The culture and practice of good governance set out beliefs and rules that soccer corporate sponsors need to vigilant about. Kavitha (2015) highlights governance malpractices that are happening within the global soccer governing body, FIFA. These malpractices include money that has been alleged to come through illegal channels, such as money laundering, racketeering, and wire fraud. FIFA officials, including nine of its high-ranking officials and five sports marketing executives, were implicated in the said scandal (Jennings, 2011). These scandals involved the individuals’ involvement in a series of bribery cases as well as other backdoor deals that were aimed at securing tournaments and FIFA events’ marketing rights. The concerns of the

Corporate Social Responsibility as taken precedence in the way in which business operates, and now the focus is to hold businesses ‘ accountable’, which is defined by (Keohane, 2006), as a implementation or rules and exercising of power, within a particular domain, cited in How FIFA can be held accountable? Example, of such is the issues surrounding the governance is within FIFA, and holding them accountable for the governance of football and the issues surrounding the international organization (Pieth, 2011) cited in, How FIFA can be held accountable?, these issues includes, acts of money laundering, fraud, corruption and bribery, (Alan Cameron, 2014, P.3), cited in The Case of FIFA, that these leaders should be held accountable for the decisions made, however (Keohane, 2006), stated that it is very difficult to enforce accountability, within a global context as it has particular challenges, especially when dealing with governmental and non-governmental organization across the globe with different domestic governance, which makes it complex in reaching a decision associated with the norms and standard associated with accountability, however with FIFA, stated (Keohane, 2006), that FIFA is a non-governmental organization, which means that government have no control over their practices, according to (Gideon Rachman, 2011) “FIFA cannot be held accountable”. (Grant and Keohane, 2005, p.35) cited in, How can FIFA be held accountable?, analyzed a comprehensive framework, in