In this article I receive a lifelong ban from all footballing
will be activities for the multiple violations of the
discussing the articles of the FIFA Code of Ethics. This
ethical could be prevented by having regular
concerns of checks, maybe once a year, to ensure that
the all members of FIFA are acting
communities, responsibly. Also to make sure that no un-
which are affected by FIFA. ethical activities are occurring. This check
would have to be from an external official.
FIFA are one of the biggest organisations
They would also have to check the sports
to ever be criticised and investigated for
marketing objectives as they also played a
being un-ethical. One of the biggest
part in the corruption. FIFA could also
problems that has recently risen, is the
have a complete re-shuffle, to get rid of
sheer scale of corruption in 2015. The
any corrupt members. Due to supposedly
main reason why they were investigated
being a non-profit organisation, they
was due to wire fraud, racketeering and
shouldn’t mind being completely
money laundering. They found out that
transparent, for example publishing all
collusion was happening between officials
end of year books etc.
of continental football bodies
(CONMEBOL) and also some sports FIFA are also to blame for ruining local
marketing executives. These executives communties, for example the South Africa
are the holders of media and marketing, 2010 and Brazil 2014. Both of these world
especially for any high-end tournaments cups are examples of FIFA affecting the
(FIFA World local communities. A leading international
Cup). One of charity, Terre des Hommes, who are
the biggest dedicated to stopping child exploitation in
shocks was developing countries, would like to see a
the President number of financial and social changes
of around World Cups. During the build up to
CONCACAF, the summer of 2014, over 170,000 people
Jeffrey Webb lost their homes, due to the building or
(On the right), renovation of stadiums, roads and
who was airports. Its been reported that thousands
arrested in of families were forcibly resettled in basic
Zurich on corruption charges. The huts which are without electricity and
indictment lead to leading sports water.
marketing executives, who were accused
of paying over $150 Million in bribes in
exchange for the advertisement rights to
major footballing tournaments. Webb
pled guilty in November 2015, to one
count of racketeering conspiracy, three
counts of wire fraud and three counts of
money laundering conspiracy. He is due to