FIFA, World Cup & The Money.
simonireland | Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 | 28 Comments »We are well into the WC 2010 now. The stadiums are great, the fields are beautiful, the spectacle is grand. The competition so far is really very, very average. Serbia who looked quite exciting & enterprising, lost out to a crappy Ghana goal. Spain were humbled, thankfully, as it may actually inspire them to come out of the ‘tactical cage’ that they are in. England are super ordinary, again. The US are playing on adrenaline and are best described as robots on speed. Brazil ‘held’ back quite well by a North Korea. WHAT ? They are a team who only have, I think, 3 players playing outside their own small, insulated, third world country…….one in Russia and two in Japan……how can they hold Brazil like that ???
Next time we inspect their nuclear facilities, we should send some people in to take a look at their football training & development facilities & training system. With such extreme isolationism, social financial & political third world status, how can the Koreans do it? Everybody is quick to jump on a system of play, or development bandwagon, be it a Spanish, Dutch or Brazilian training rogramme, but North Korea actually looked like they participate regularly at the top of international football. There is a distinct possibility they are playing above themselves due to presidential demands!
So I asked myself, Self, can all this media hype surrounding the Big teams & players be just that ? Hype! Is it posible that all the hype in the World Cup & Football advertising and promotion merely a smokescreen ? A marvelously ornate curtain to hide the true prize?
Then the question popped into my head again, Self, where does all the money in the Football world go to ? I know it’s not the sexy question people are really interested in, not when we are in the middle of the beautiful games showpiece, but seriously, who is getting these extremely large amounts of cash ? FIFA generates billions of dollars. BILLIONS. And, its operating budget sees a surplus – even in these tough economic times. In contrast, if you are poor in South Africa, you are very poor and cant even (the peoples game?) afford a game ticket. But South Africa is a very, very rich country if you are one of the very lucky one’s. So I took a quick look to see if there was any dirt on the web about any of the FIFA executives, and/or links to the organizing executive. Well, what do you know. There is.
Now, how much of it is true? I dont know. But, there are plenty of genuine, credible references to the criminal element inside FIFA and peripheral to FIFA.
So if you do wonder where all the money goes, take a look at this site. The journalist is apparently a very well respected investigative journalist who has been tracking the FIFA party boys for years. His name is Andrew Jennings. His site is ‘TransparencyinSport.com and a recent FIFA story can be seen here http://www.transparencyinsport.org/World-Cup-Winners/PDF-documents/The-2010-World-Cup-Winners.pdf
He has a couple of books out as well and if the football on the field is a bit boring, you can try a read of this off the field stuff, which is very much like reading a spy novel. But Jennings stuff is true.
And, if thats not enough to fill the vacuum created by some boring early group rounds of footy, try this article……http://bleacherreport.com/articles/406843-money-makes-the-world-cup-go-round It gives you some more ‘perspective’.
By the way, when you read anything FIFA quotes as a contribution to ‘development’ in underpriviliged countries, please understand that there are some very fat bank accounts whose owners have done well from so called third world ‘cultural & football development’.
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