Adam Wall
FIFA
Football,
(soccer), dominates our world. Everyone watches it, from villages in Africa
to a German pub, everyone loves soccer. It brings the world together. There
will be war, disagreements, and hatred but football makes people forget all of
that and connect the world through some good old competition. It makes the two
teams equal, no matter what country they represent, it’s the same rules and
regulations, no one team has an advantage. During the world cup last year for
example, the United States
the most powerful country in the world faced off against Ghana,
a small poor country in western Africa. Ghana
almost beat the world power as well. Examples like this make me really enjoy
the culture of the game and how it brings the world together.
The world
cup is where all of this comes together. Sure there is the premiere league,
Lega Calcio, and the MLS but they are nothing compared to the main event, the
world cup. Run by FIfA (Fédération
Internationale de Football Association), the world cup takes place ever four
years and has been a tradition for the past 80 years. Countries all over the
world come to a host countries stadiums and duke it out for the championship,
professional players represent there country and everyone in the world spectates
and watches. I love the atmosphere of the world cup. The USA normal doesn’t
follow soccer that much but when the world cup comes around, there is
patriotism all over the country for supporting our team and this is going on
all across the world as well, I love the world cup.
AS much as I love the world cup,
there are still some issues I have with FIFA. The host country has been a huge
controversy over the past few years. Brazil and South Africa, the last two countries who held the cup
have been under some extremely economic stress. This is especially the case
with Brazil who has to host the Olympics as well next year. Brazil spent over fifteen billion dollars on the
world cup whether it was new stadiums, roads, buildings, and many other things.
All this money is something they didn’t have even before the world cup and now
they are facing serious problems with there economy and debt. All this debt and
all they got out of it was some fancy stadiums in the middle of the jungle and
little bit of tourism. Most countries host the cup for building of new infrastructure
such as transportation, government offices, and stadiums for large events such
as football and tourism. Sometimes this can be a huge boost for a country but
this turns out not to be the case. These
world cups can totally cripple a country for over debt and terrible spending. I
don’t know why countries keep bidding for these games when they know that it
can totally cripple their country.
FIFA is also being totally scum.
Bidding usually takes place years before where a country says what they can
provide for the tournament. More developed countries are usually chosen because
they can better hold the games with more infrastructure and stadiums. Lately we
seem to see some less developed countries taking the role of being the host. Qatar is the latest country that is now
struggling but still decided to take the challenge of being host. Speculated
for being picked because they bribed FIFA with oil money, they are now stuck
with the 2022 world cup and they aren’t even close to being ready. IT doesn’t
make any sense, its 120 degrees there so it will be impossible to play, it’s a
strict Muslim country and they have little to no infrastructure. So FIFA being
the idiots they are gave these guys the right host and now they’re stuck and
trying to figure out if the should move the cup somewhere else. FIFA is so
money driven and John Oliver did a great and funny thing on them if you want to
learn anymore about the diabolical and terrible company of FIFA. They are
ruining the greatest sports event in the world. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I)
