For years, FIFA has been the center of allegations involving scandal, corruption, and general unhealthy management. The negativity surrounding the leadership of FIFA has caused the organization and the sport to spiral into questions of fairness, responsibility, and accountability. Football players and fans alike have lost a great deal of trust and respect for the organization that has promised to maintain the sanctity of their sport. As a task force, we have been assigned to revitalize the FIFA organization and bring all of its actions to light. Our vision is a fair, clean sport that is enhanced by a just governing body. We want to bring justice to the sport and its fans who relentlessly support it. We will condone honest actions taken by …show more content…
FIFA must lead by example, they need to become more active in demonstrating the core value of leadership. How can we expect the football world to make the right decisions and to be honest in their ways of business if the main organization of football isn’t doing so themselves? Lastly, we believe FIFA needs to master the core value of maturity. If we are expecting maturity when it comes to how players handle a bad call on the field, then we should also expect it of the largest organization of the sport itself, FIFA. If something were to go wrong in the future, whether it is with a player, board member, vice-president, etc., FIFA should be mature about the situation and handle it properly and correct it. They should not let it slide or look the other away. In light of recent events that put the reputation of FIFA into question, our goal is to bring reforms that will restore FIFA as an organization built on honesty and friendly competition.
In order to combat the alleged corruption throughout FIFA, our first objective is to create a decentralized system of authority. To do this, we first want to create a complete separation between the management that deals with the commercial aspect of FIFA and those who make executive decisions within FIFA. By doing this we believe that the temptation and occurrence of corruption will be decreased because those who work to create commercial deals and handle the bidding
Sometimes even referees or coaches are paid off to affect the score. Next, the reader is introduced the Wilson Perumal, who is a fixer born in singapore. Then, the reader is taken to Australia where they meet Chris Eaton, a police officer that will soon be promoted to interpol and then the head of security at FIFA. Then the scene shifts to China where Perumal fixes matches in the Asian leagues. For a while, fixing was earning Perumal a lot of money, but they he found himself in and out of jail.
FIFA has been violating human rights for years, and dehumanize people with poor living conditions, unsafe equipment, cheap wage. All this for the construction of unnecessary new stadiums and other soccer monuments. For the 2022 World Cup in Qatar they are currently using migrants as workers. They are paying them cheaply, and a report from the International Trade Union Confederation stated that in the past 5 years 1,200 migrant workers have died constructing stadiums in Qatar. They also predict that 4,000 will die until the first game is played in the world cup (Oliver).
Constantly, players from the NFL have been causing problems off of the football field. For example, Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice and Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson been causing very “domestic violence”. “Their behavior, and that of a handful of other NFL stars, has been outrageous.” The NFL can urge its several thousand players to behave morally. When players are on the field, they act aggressively so this can reflect their behavior once they are finished with the game. “The NFL can urge its several thousand players to behave morally. However, it cannot watch them 24 hours a day without seriously violating their privacy and civil liberties.” People believe that they deserve punishments that fit their crimes. Overall, the National Football players should be punished for what they have
The referee flipped his coin, signaling the start of what seemed to be a never ending soccer game. As the captains ran back from the center circle, the referee called over his shoulder, “Girls, we’re going to be playing big girl soccer today, so I won’t be calling any fouls.” Not surprisingly, this game turned out to be the most injurious game in my soccer career. When the final whistle blew, there was a total of two concussions, a dislocated hip, a blown out knee, and countless scrapes and bruises on all of us contenders. The parents, rooting for their respective teams, were the ones horrified most of all. While they could have yelled at the referee, acted in an impolite manner, and possibly had their team disqualified from the tournament, they decided to follow the civil process established by the league; this was writing letters of complaint and sending them to the tournament organizer. Through this process, the parents were able to express their displeasure with the referee without compromising the team’s ability to win.
The spectator of this sport has an obligation to the players of the sport, to make sure that the organization is protecting and looking out for them. Yet not only should the viewer be held accountable for the lack of communication in consequences between the player and the pro scene, but the organization of the NFL needs to make sure that their players have a full understanding of what is going on and how they need to protect the players. The current situation that is understood, contents contain implied knowledge that all parties of this table are in uniform knowledge and agreement to what comes of playing football. Finally, this should also happen at the youth level when kids are just getting into the sport, as it would better inform the parents and the kid if they understood the full
In Chapter Seven, Foer discusses soccer in relation to politics and how many politicians have used it to gain power and favour in different social groups in Italy. Money is what keeps many stadiums going in Italy--as well as the government. This chapter connects these two things all the while further explaining soccer economics in
Over nemouse years the world has evolved and many changes have taken place. Regardless of your age, gender, religion or race its seem that sports has been one of the things that brings everybody together in the end. Whether it be sharing an interest for the same sport in general or the same sports team. With this being said corruption has entered the sports community, it is not about bringing your team together for the sake of enjoyment. Being victorious is now what is expected among your team, coaches, fans and yourself. Now Athletes and coaches are doing whatever it takes to win. Whether it be breaking the law by placing bids or accepting bids, committing fraud and willingly taking illegal performance-enhanching
ESPN explains that their employees are supposed to be respectful and responsible and represent the NFL’s values and the permissible actions that are done for the good of the league. It has been brought up that the league should dismantle its current personal conduct policy and just leave it with the bare minimum, general rules. “This bare essentials policy allows the justice system to deal with substantial behavioral breaches by players” (Goff) so that the NFL can be removed from any decision-making or investigating involved with a player’s personal conduct issues. By removing the NFL from these positions of authority, it will return the power to the “criminal justice system [which should] [have] primary responsibility” (Goff) over the players; this way the NFL does not have to worry about their players’ actions every second of every day. One cannot argue that the concept of allowing the justice system to take care of any conduct issues that arise in the NFL is not such a disastrous idea. Sometimes the league is too involved with player, even team, problems which can cause turmoil among the media and fans because the league accomplishes all they can to keep their players safe and more importantly, maintain the positive image of the
To grasp a clearer understanding about sport agents and if they cause corruption within the sporting industry we must first be able to examine the ethical decision making of both athletes and sport agents. Also, we must gain a better
As a fan and a soccer player, which is called “Foutbol” in my country (Haiti), I watched many talents go to waste. Back home we didn’t have the proper equipment to train and play the beautiful game of foutbol. Most importantly, we lack the soccer knowledge that prevented most of us from playing on a professional level. There are many places where children are playing the game with their bare feet, and unorganized. Although, many others recognize the problem, not one, including our government, ought to make a change. With this in mind, Nick’s Foutbol Academy & Complex was born where I will be able to provide soccer players in Haiti the necessary gears for practice and games.
In the essay “The NFL’s Head Cases”, the main issue is wondering how to enforce the rules of safety for the players. The commissioner for the NFL gave out fines to
This paper explores public reactions and their attitude towards people who are in power, especially those that are related to soccer and their controversies in media and literature. These are the member of high class society, are mainly focused in media. Controversies and scandals are usually linked with them. The controversy related to FIFA, the governing body of soccer is explored in this paper. The corrupted voting process and the blatant disregard for human life shown by high ranking officers is seen. Sep Blatter, most influential person in world of football was the main person behind this controversy. Blatter misused his power and build his empire on basis of corruption and lawlessness. Furthermore, substance abuse by one of the most influential
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
Hooker virtue ethics discover and classify what moral character is in our life. In my point of view, it is about the conformity to a standard of right through your own sense of rationality and integrity which was not applied at all by FIFA personnel during their action taken leading to the scandal. Once again, public companies are just digging their own grave by not abiding by the law.
Controversy has continuously followed wherever FIFA World Cup goes, and it appears that Russia is set to follow suit for the 2018 games. It should come as no surprise that there is global unease while discussing Russia hosting these games; having their morals as a country been questioned continuously on a global scale. After conducting online research, it can be declared with confidence that 2018 FIFA World Cup is muddled with economic, socio-cultural, and quite possibly political issues as the commence date draws closer.