In May 2006 British investigatory reporter Andrew Jennings' book Foul! The Secret World of FIFA:

The book “From How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization” is written by Franklin Foer and was published in 2004. The book talks about different aspects of globalization. Franklin Foer is an American journalist who used to work as an editor of The New Republic. He belongs to a family of writers as one of his younger brothers is a novelist and the other is a freelance journalist. In his book Franklin elucidated the impact of globalization on the society. He has used soccer to elaborate the main ideas in the text and because of this link between globalization and soccer, the book has fascinated several sports persons. Furthermore, this text is branching out into three parts and each part scrutinizes a different aspect of globalization.

The England and Wales Cricket Board’s decision to send its players to a World Cup match in Zimbabwe in 2003, regardless of political concerns due to the dictatorship of President Mugabe and the possible propaganda impact the match might have Fearing a severe financial penalty in the forms of lost

The 1987 film Broadcast News focuses on the inner workings of a broadcast news department as it shows various friendship and romantic relationships within the workplace. By showing the personal lives as well as professional performances of broadcast reporters in this fictional drama, the film delves into a few key ethical dilemmas. The main characters are Jane Craig, a producer, Aaron Altman, a broadcast reporter, and Tom Grunick, a newcomer to the news reporting profession. Perhaps one of the ethical issue most pivotal to the plot is when Tom decides to stage a shot of him crying in order to splice it in as a reaction to an emotional story told by one of his interviewees in a story he was running about “date rape”. Although doing so compromises

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

The Baseball World Series of 1919 involved the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds (Linder, 2010). The Series was an exciting exchange that boiled down to the last game, which was taken by the victorious Cincinnati Reds (Linder, 2010). However, a year later, news broke that the game was rigged by the Chicago White Sox (Linder, 2010). They threw the game in order to receive a large payout, which was never given (Linder, 2010). The eight players involved disgraced the sport and the American public (Linder, 2010). In today’s world of sports, scandals continue to happen. A recent example is the doping scandal of the United States Postal Service Pro Cycling Team and, their captain, Lance Armstrong. While the US Postal Service team’s doping does not seem to be connected to the White Sox’s gambling problem, they share many similarities.

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

The White Sox players accepted the bribes because they all thought they weren’t getting paid enough from the owner Charles Comiskey, and thought that they would be getting money by purposely losing the game and going on with life like nothing happened. The players accepted and went along with the scandal not knowing they would get caught, but all the players worried about was the money, they did not care thinking about what happened if they got caught, lost their jobs and going jail as long as they had the money. This scandal compares to the reason when Voldyrev had to bribe the clerk for some information. The clerk was very rude and wouldn’t even talk to Voldyrev or even tell him he had to pay. The clerk acted

In the past in few years, there has been mayor argument in football. Football is full-body contact sport causing many injuries to be reported. The biggest injury of them all is the player getting concussions. Although the NFL has protocols set to detect those concussions. However, many reports show that many players continue to play without their concussion being detected. Protocols aren’t the only problem. Football equipment has changed over the century. Helmets and body padding are built thicker and stronger. I agree with the push of stronger protocols and football equipment. The first reason is because the push will lead to a decrease in concussion rate in football. Date shows that football holds the highest concussion

The case of corruption in 30 for 30: Playing For The Mob, involved many parties. Firstly, Boston College’s basketball team is the spotlight. The basketball team match-fixed their games. Match-fixing is defined as taking a bribe to lose a match. For example, the team was rewarded with money if they lost to Holy Cross. Secondly, the next party is composed of three individuals that come in contact with the basketball players. Those

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.

However, after almost four years of being awarded, reports of corruption, vote buying, and human rights abused has surfaced the news (Chi, 2014). The Telegraph reported that the former FIFA Vice-President, Jack Warner, and his family were paid millions from a company controlled by a former Quatari football official in order to sway the vote on the 2022 World Cup. Supporting documents have showed that payments totaling $750,000 were made to Warner’s sons, and additional $400,000 was paid to one of his employees (Claire et al, 2014). According to writer Samuel Chi from the Diplomat, he resigned from the organization in June 2011, but not before votes were cast in December 2010. Investigations from the FBI took effect immediately regarding the issue of Mr. Warner and his links to the Quatari bid. Russia was also subject to controversy of breaking FIFA rules. Allegedly, the Sunday Times reported that the president of Russia, Vladmir Putin, was a suspect of engaging in vote trading and vote-buying to win the support of FIFA voters (Sunday Times, 2014). The allegations were contained within a database. Both Russia and Quatar have denied accusations, but US and Swiss authorities continue to investigate the organization’s bidding process. Although Domenico Scala, the head of FIFA’s audit and compliance committee has not found real evidence against Russia and Quatar, he warns

In this article, Paul uses many different creditability to establish readers trust in order to prove his points. For example, Michael Lewis, who is famous for “non-fiction author who has written about the misdeeds and abuses of Wall Street for a quarter of a century” (David, 2015). Paul focuses on Michael’s work throughout the article. Another source Paul used was the Bob Ley from ESPN investigative reporter “Because the banking laws of the United States have been trifled with” (David, 2015). Paul also used an event in his article, “Perhaps you think I am a ruthless parasite sucking the lifeblood out of the world and our football -- the Godfather of the FIFA gravy train” (David, 2015). To demonstrate the truth, which took place in Oxford two years ago. This allows the reader to feel the information is not made up or coming only from the author view. Having different creditability helps the reader have different views to make a better judgment and to provide the correct

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.