World Cup Brazil 2014 GuideJoin the World Cup Experience World Cup Brazil 2014 Guide Primary menu Skip to primary content Skip to secondary content Home Schedule Teams World Cup 2014 World Cup History Brazil News Contact Us About Us Digital 2014 World Cup Guide Post navigation Home >> World Cup 2014 >> Facts << Previous - Facts The process of the organisation of a World Cup always creates interesting developments and new records. Do you want to know the facts about the 2014
When discussing major sporting events of the world, the World Cup is the second most watched sporting event in the world (outside of the Olympics). An event that occurs every four years involves countries from the entire world. The last World Cup occurred in 2014 in Brazil, with over 3,400,000 million in attendance and over 219 countries around the world watching from home (Slater, 2014). With the plethora of fans in attendance or watching at home, combined with the money and resources involved into
Corruption Scores a Hat Trick Against FIFA 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
On the surface, Brazil does not appear as a country ravaged by poverty however, portions of it are; and its environmental stability is an enormous factor of this. In 2000 the United Nations concocted a plan to assist countries like Brazil; thus the Millennium Development Goals emerged. In essence, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs for short) are a set of targets set to challenge extreme poverty across the globe. As Brazil is not a ‘traditional’ country in the subject of poverty so a specific
World Sporting Events are Much More Than Just Games The cries of mistreated people in the favelas of Brazil are heard, but not helped. According to the IOC (International Olympic Committee), the preparations made by Brazil for the World Cup and Olympics have been “the worst” they have ever seen. Brazil has reportedly dropped 14 billion on the World Cup alone, the money spent on the World Cup has gone to stadiums and and all aid for the event. This emmense spending to people being evicted due to
FIFA Corruption FIFA has been investigated by the FBI and Switzerland authorities for wrongfully choosing the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup locations. There are 24 executive members to partake in the voting and a country needs 12 votes in order to win and be the host of the World Cup. There are many witnesses and documents that the votes were bought with bribes, money laundering, special promises and expensive paintings. Nelson Oro 0632157 MGN300 Business Ethics November 22, 2016 Part 1:
numbers that they broadcast on the news. Does the Olympics make a positive impact in the world? With the debt that the host cities encounter after the games are over, The International Olympic Committee (IOC) struggles to choose an economically stable city, and the horrific aftermath of the Olympics in the host city, the Olympics should have a rotation process between five different host cities or the Olympics should be eliminated. The IOC has many goals and objectives for during the Olympics and after
Brazil: what happened with its promised skyrocket economy? By the end of 2009 Brazil was in the front page of “The economist” with a special report called “Brazil takes off”. The report mentioned that “China may be leading the world economy out of recession but Brazil is also on a roll. It did not avoid the downturn, but was among the last in and the first out. Its economy is growing again at an annualized rate of 5%. It should pick up more speed over the next few years as big new deep-sea oilfields
people of all places in good and in bad ways. Drugs can be used to heal, but it can also be used to destroy. Drugs are used by many all throughout the world, especially in Latin American countries. One of them being; Brazil. Brazil is very well known for the beaches, warm weather, fun people and inviting atmosphere, but with every good thing, comes a bad thing. Brazil is also filled with thieves, poverty and especially drugs and drug dealers. Many drugs are used all throughout many places, and just
employment potential and the massive foreign income for the South American country given the World Cup and the Olympic Games. Thanks to its 6,000 miles of beaches and new governmental support programs, Brazil’s tourism sector did very well during the 2009 global economic crises, managing not to lose a point during the international recession. But the future is bound to become even brighter. The 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games with their strong investments in infrastructure are already