FIFA,
an organization which is in charge of advancing the sport of soccer, also
enjoys its fair share of corruption. To get a better understanding of FIFA and its
dirty dealings, then imagine FIFA as a fake dating profile. “Hello my name is
FIFA, I’m in charge of one of the most watched events in t.v. history, the
World Cup. Every four years I choose a new country to host the World Cup. Now
how do I choose you may ask? Well I enjoy long walks on the beach with my Bluetooth
on figuring out which country will give me the most money as a bribe. I know I know
I’m a little naughty. But what would I do without some small contributions, after
all FIFA is a non-profit organization (which is why I don’t pay taxes in the
host countries). Since the money we earn is supposed to be put back into the
sport in the form of equipment, fields, and other supplies. Again, I kind of
have sticky fingers and somehow that money turns into a new car, whoops! But
don’t tell this anyone, I may go to jail, or not because I have Justice Systems
on the payroll ha-ha.”
As
you can see FIFA is a stinker, but in all seriousness it is a very destructive
corporation to poorer nations. They require a nation to build several massively
expensive and unsustainable fields/stadiums that cost quite a bit. And such
fields barely get any use for the amount of resources put into them. In South
Africa two of the six fields are able to be maintained and the other four may
be closed down. South Africa is already a poor country, and those six stadiums
cost $1.3 billion to construct, and maintaining them costs millions more every
year. In Qatar twelve stadiums are planned to be built. Using workers from
foreign countries as slaves to build those stadiums, already twelve-hundred
workers have died and FIFA has said done nothing to stop it.
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