Sociology: 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

In late 1989, arbitrator George Nicolau led proceedings over Collusion 2. He would later find in favor of the players. Nicolau found that the damages were over 35 million dollars worth.

First, it is important to define what corruption is. The term, “corruption” covers a broad range of human actions,

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

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.

A Former Australian player has been fined for $49,000 and banned for seven years after being found guilty of corruption by integrity unit.

Warner’s charges extend all the back into the 1980’s, however his more impactful charges came during the 2000’s. He was involved on two different occasions of selling World Cup tickets valued at a premium within the Black Market, in which he made $350,000 during the 2002 and over a $1 million in 2006. During the 2006, Ernst and Young, the audit firm for FIFA, found out about Warner’s actions and he was fined a maximum amount of $1, however only a fourth of that fine was ever paid.

On any given day, if you were to tune into a news channel or browse the internet, there would be a good chance that a story of corruption would be uncovered. Corruption has been taking place since the beginning of time (literally). Some would say that is customary, and many would even argue that it is inevitable. In the book, ¬Global Corruption: Money, Power and Ethics in the Modern World, Laurence Cockcroft attempts to identify and educate others on the ethical (or unethical) dilemmas that many individuals, companies, and/or governments are facing throughout the world. Global Corruption provides the reader incredible insight into a wide array of instances of corruption. Mr. Cockcroft begins by giving the reader a brief overview of what defines corruption, along with several examples of corruption that has occurred throughout the globe. Then the author transitions into why corruption occurs by identifying the common drivers of unethical behavior, and concludes the book by offering some analysis on what measures need to be taken in order to fight global corruption.

Bribery is becoming more expensive around the world because of business transparency. Different individuals working on different fields come together and strike deals. In the world of business, there is always someone somewhere who has what u need and at times, one is tempted to getting what they need in ways that is not very fair and legal. For example there was a situation where a task manager

Political corruption is parasitic; it finds a host, and can almost always find a way to survive. Eventually, people grow dependent on this corruption as a means for income, thus forming a symbiosis between the people who benefit from it, and the elites that regulate it. People sometimes ignore the corruption surrounding them, feeling that as long as the politicians do their jobs well, their ‘extra salary’ can’t hurt (BNS).

Over a long period of time, corruption has been the focal point of every government, media and academics globally. Through money laundering, proceeds of crime can be disguised. Proceeds of crime can simply be put as money earned from profit-oriented crime. The methods used are many and highly complicated. Corruption is one of the organised crime which is said to be primarily associated with the laundering of proceeds through money laundering. Technological tools accord further chances for individuals to employ money laundering as a process of ‘cleaning up’ dirty money and obscure the trail leading back to the underlying crime.

Corruption is a complex political, social, and economic anomaly that negatively affects developing and developed countries. It weakens democratic institutions, holds economic development, widening the rich-poor gap and certainly leads to governmental instability. The World Bank definition of corruption states that “…the abuse of public office for private gain”.

In the year 2013, the Competition Commission of India ordered that Board of cricket council of India had abused its dominant position in the market and thereby imposed penalty amounting to Rs.53 crores. In the BCCI-CCI case , the instant complaint was filed by the Informant who is a cricket fan, against the OP to the CCI under Section 19 (1) (a) of the Act on November 2, 2010. His allegations were pertaining to the irregularities in the organization of Indian Premier League (IPL), Twenty 20 and professional league tournament conducted by BCCI. He alleged irregularities in the following:

Corruption is the misuse of public resources and office for private gain. However, this definition does not exclude the misuse of resources in corporate and private corporations. Generally, corruption is perceived to be more widespread in certain countries than others. In particular, the evil of corruption is widely practiced in developing countries. The most important consideration is to understand why this is the usual trend in corruption across the globe. In a general perspective, different theories have tried to associate this trend in corruption with specific cultural and historical traditions, political institutions, levels of economic development, as well as government policies. However, there is more to consider in this argument since corruption is also prominent in countries with histories of British rule, protestant traditions, and less economic development.

If two or more persons meet together and start talking about the present society of India, they soon come to the conclusion that every system, every institution of India is infested with corruption. Corruption has become so common in public life.