The US Department Of Justice: FIFA Corruption

Through the statement, “Further, the current system leads to a corruption as coaches and boosters regularly find ways to circumvent the rules and provide benefits to the young athletes”, Frederick manages to describe the coaches and boosters as inhuman self-centered people who only care about money rather than saying that what they are doing is a problem and should be fixed by using the word corruption instead of problem. Additionally, Frederick is able to emphasize that fans don’t treat college sports like professional sports with the use of “corrupt” in the quote, “Fans also like to imagine that college sports are somehow much simpler and less corrupt than professional sports.” Through Frederick’s diction, he is able to persuade the college sport fans better, as he describes the current system broken and needs to be noticed immediately by the society if they want the college athletics to continue.

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 largest impact internationally has been the result of the awareness of the FCPA. Since the U.S. government enacted the FCPA, it has raised awareness in foreign countries, many of which have enforced their own anti-bribery laws and have also signed on to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s (OECD) Anti-Bribery Convention to show their commitment to the regulations of the anti-bribery laws. The OECD actually has no authority to enforce legislation and relies on the member countries to regulate the anti-bribery law. Foreign companies who are associated with U.S. markets and foreign government officials are now aware of the consequences of violating the FCPA.

“Corruption in Australian sport is not a new phenomenon. A series of high-profile cases in Australia, combined with an increasing international focus, has seen a reassessment of Australian sport’s vulnerability to illegal activities such as match-fixing, use of inside information for betting purposes and the use of performance and image-enhancing drugs. This has led to the development and endorsement of national policies on match-fixing and doping, the establishment of sport integrity units, inclusion of specialist intelligence units in law enforcement and the creation of new match-fixing offences.”

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

There are many ways the FIFA organization, fixes and commit fraud to win a match. One of them in specific is when they contact a important person attending or performing in the game. Then they try to bride them by giving them money that they will make in years of playing soccer. Even for refs that is

Professional track and field is a sport that requires years of training, along with a healthy diet and proper recovery for a chance to become a world champion; it is also a sport in which over 50% of professional American track athletes earn less than $15,000 from annually (Marcin). Meanwhile, world champions earn enough to live in luxury, and this leads to many athletes turning to performance enhancing drugs to gain an edge over their competition. The largest group of athletes that have been accused includes over 1,000 professional track athletes in Russia. The reason they were able to do this for so long without getting caught is because Russia’s anti-doping agency was accepting bribes, and this is another reason that corruption has run so deep in track and field.

The leaked documents are the latest blow to the scandal-plagued Fédération Internationale de Football Association or FIFA. Last year, the US Justice Department accused 16 FIFA officials of bribery for collecting millions of dollars for dispensing media and marketing rights for tournaments.

An 18 month investigation conducted by FIFA into FIFA’s decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar has found that FIFA has no issue with corruption, whilst President Blatter claims that those accusing them of such wrongdoings are ‘racists’.

Jack Warner was also implicated on having collusion within several World Cups including two awarded to South Africa, the 2018 World cup, and 2022 World Cup. Along with Warner, FIFA was

FIFA the largest soccer organization, is now being investigated by the Swedish, and Americans for “fraud, illegal ticket selling, and accepting bribes.” FIFA started being questioned from certain events that occurred throughout the years. “In 2006 FIFA’s Ethics Committee censured Warner after an audit revealed he made at least $1 million illegally selling World Cup tickets.” (Davis 1) They also suspended Warner later for a rumor about him “skimming deals”. The world cup, the greatest event for soccer, has bids between countries to see who can host it. In order to host it the country must show they are economically stable, and win the votes. The 2018 World Cup and 2022 World cup are being hosted by Russia and Qatar. People speculate that Qatar won the votes by bribing the

He claimed they appeared on a list of 175 bribes paid by ISL, totaling about $100 million. A former ISL executive said that there were intuitions within ISL that the company was only awarded the marketing contract for successive World Cups by paying bribes to FIFA officials. The program also alleged that another current official, Jack Warner, has been involved in reselling World Cup tickets to brags; SeppBlatter said that FIFA had not investigated the allegation because it had not been told about it via 'official channels'.

As a passionate marketer for FIFA, and a lifelong fan of the organization, the recent scandals involving top FIFA officials have been heartbreaking for me. With all of the media presence and accusations that have been surrounding FIFA for the last few decades, I am truly worried about our future. In order for us to rebuild our organization, we need to take decisive actions to ensure these types of scandals never happen again. Despite the protests of those who think we should be lenient with corrupt officials, we must ensure justice is served and these crimes are never committed again. This presents an ethical dilemma because imposing these strict regulations may reduce the success of our historic organization. Nonetheless, I propose a range of solutions, including making sure every call throughout the FIFA organization is monitored, triple-checking all transactions that occur involving top FIFA executive officials, and creating a new process where officials are constantly switched out.

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

In this paper, I will be writing about corruption and bribery. I will define the terms and go on to explain the regulations that have been put in place to stop corruption and bribery. I will then go on to give examples of major corruption and bribery scandals that companies have recently been in and what has been done to punish said companies for their crime.