Sepp Blatter who was the former president of FIFA was arrested and charged with racketeering, corruption, and Money laundering. The former president of FIFA claimed that he not done what people were saying and knew nothing about any wrong doing. This arrest of Sepp Blatter and fourteen other colleges showed that the corruption at the time in FIFA was out of controlled and today continues to be a problem. The reason that FIFA has such a problem with corruption is because it acts like a monopoly, FIFA has absolute power over the world of soccer in Europe. No one wanted to challenge the power of the organization or say anything about what was going on in the organization. Countries that wanted to host the world cup gave money to FIFA, the bribery of money got worse over time. Many have considered FIFA to be like the mafia in the sense that they lined their pockets and allowed to do so by a godfather like figure, which would be Sepp Blatter. The power that FIFA has over the sport of soccer in Europe is huge, the reason for so much power is the fact that it is so popular with people and vast amounts of money from TV contracts, advertisers and, sponsors. With the more power that they got and keep getting corruption is still to be a problem in the future for FIFA. Organizations like FIFA with the more that is involved the more likely the evet of corruption will occur, left unchecked power with these organization can become out of control. Monopoly like organizations get greedy and want as much money as possible, with FIFA it was about which country was willing to pay the most to host the world cup. Another organization/ committee that did similar things was the international Olympic committee, the International Olympic Committee wanted “gifts” from the countries that wanted to host the summer and winter Olympics. With these two organizations it shows that organizations that gain a lot of power and act like monopolies will end up doing questionable things and eventually have corruption overtake the organization. FIFA and the International Olympic Committee need to be regulated better to prevent corruption, bribery and racketeering. Corruption in international sports will continue to be a problem for people in international sports if these organizations are not regulated. The international sports world continues to be in shock of what happened with FIFA.
By Adam Spartz
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