Jesus Orozco

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UWRT 1103
Professor Elizabeth Caruso
November 17th, 2015
Defense Paper
FIFA has always been a widely corrupt and malicious corporation, whose intentions may
seem to be the preservation and up keeping of soccer and its history of integrity; however,
through its recent actions over the past few decades it has proven otherwise. While FIFA has
definitely established itself as an untrustworthy corporation in the past, recently it has shown
signs of bribery, match fixing, and even scandals involving the fixing of FIFA World Cup
allocations, which further increase this claim. These concerns have all been happening more
frequently since the 2010 World Cup in South Africa (Rodrigues 1). My product will be a bill
presented to the United States Senate, and once approved it will be showed to the United
Nations, it will focus primarily on the internal issues and policies concerning the FIFA
organization and what is the best course of action to remove these problems from upcoming
world cups.
The real victims of the actions taken by FIFA and the Countries in association with it are
the citizens of the host nation. The citizens of these countries are affected tremendously by the
actions and spendings of their countries and the policies which FIFA places upon the host
nations of the World Cup. The actions taken by these countries and organizations cause people to
lose their homes, health care, food supply, access to affordable living and sometimes even death
because of lack of policies (Viana 1).

Based upon the lack of resolve taken by FIFA, especially towards the situation
happening in Qatar and what happened in Brazil, the best course of action to take would be to
introduce a bill into the Senate then onto the United Nations. This bill would change the policies
taken by the host nations of world cups and change major policies within the FIFA Corporation.
The problems that have faced FIFA have escalated even greater since the South African
World Cup of 2010. Reportedly FIFA found major concerns with the integrity and allocation of
the South African tournament and did nothing about it. There were serious issues with the biding
process which granted the Cup to the African nation, but FIFA did nothing to change the voting
process, which is a major concern for the integrity of FIFA (Rodrigues 2).
One of the biggest concerns of each World Cup is the policy which FIFA places upon host
nations. It states that the host nation must build several new stadiums in accordance with their
regulations and must pay the full cost of their construction. This is a serious concern with the
tournament because in most cases it leaves the host nation with an oversupply of under-utilized
stadiums stated by Chris Rodrigues a reporter for The Guardian, this leaves the taxpayers with a
financial burden because of the tournament for years down the line and they have no choice but
to pay for it. This is probably one of the most important issues that must be faced when writing a
bill for FIFA. Instead instating a new policy which only benefits the country by building fewer
stadiums in which most of the games must be played in, this issue would solve the burden place
upon the people of these host nations. This policy would have to be instated before the bidding of
the 2026 World so as to not burden yet another country.
This financial crisis which is faced by these week governments is catastrophic because of
the millions of dollars spent in construction of a multitude of stadiums which FIFA require them
to build. The 2014 Brazil World Cup was the largest sporting event in history and the upcoming

Russian and Qatar world cups are vying on taking its spot (Mohamed 1). This is largely due to
the construction of the massive stadiums which are only used a multitude of times during the
events and then left to be vacant forever, much like what happens during the Olympic games
every four years as well. While these stadiums are abundant and unnecessarily over expensive,
that is not the major concern that comes with their construction, however it is the way in which
these arenas of soccer affect the lives of individuals in these countries. Not only does the
construction of these stadiums cause the death of workers, sexual exploitation of children and
teenagers, and violence against the homeless but it also cause hundreds of thousands to relocate
in from their homes to finish their construction. This trend is persistent and has been seen since
the 2010 World Cup in South Africa but also Brazil and even the upcoming tournaments in
Russia and Qatar. Especially in Brazil over 250,000 people were issued to evacuate their homes
where the building of these monstrosities were occurring (Mohamed 2). Not only the evacuation
of entire families but the death of workers is a huge concern for any event of his size, the safety
and health of these workers must be a huge priority and will be a major point in my Bill. The
alarming part of this is the fact that the Qatar World Cup is 7 years away, yet over 1,200 workers
have already died since the construction process has begun. If this trend continues over 4,000
workers would have died by the time the games commence in 2022 ("(UPDATED) The Toll of
Human Casualities in Qatar."), which is an outrageous and grotesque number that must be
addressed immediately.
This is not the only problem facing the 2010 World Cup, another major talking point 5
years ago was the increasing cost per ticket of each seat at the World Cup, and the average ticket
price in South Africa was listed at $636 (Rodrigues 3). This price is an outrage and was deemed
by many fans and supporters as excessive and greedy, these price ranges are ridiculous and leave

many fans unable to pay the entrance without paying an outrageous amount of money, and
without the fans and supporters soccer wouldnt be what it is, the beautiful game.
One of the predominant reasons for the introduction of this bill is the over spending
which most of the host nations are riddled with. Especially in the past two World Cups held in
South Africa and Brazil, where neither of these governments are financially or politically stable,
over-spending has been a major concern for citizens in these regions. The major concern for
these world cups is the spending by their governments which takes away funds from other
government programs such as housing, health care, and education. In both countries it has been
witnessed that thousands of protestors have gone to the streets of their major cities and marched
for the end to FIFAs world tournament in their countries. Even with international attention and
crying from thousands of their own people these governments are unwilling to budge and
continue to take the rights of their people for granted and would rather try making a profit
through the tournament. Not only has this been seen in both South Africa and Brazil, but it the
same pattern is starting to show in the upcoming World Cups of Russia and Qatar. As seen in the
Brazilian World Cup which cost a total of $11 billion dollars (Mohamed 3), which was the
primary reason for the outrage and protest in Brazil. This however is incomparable to the 220
billion dollars which will be spent in Qatar. To stop this maltreatment of people my bill will
create serious changes that FIFA must implement on the host nation of the FIFA World cups so
these atrocities do not occur again.

As seen FIFA and the nations associated with the World Cups are riddled with problems
that must be addressed as soon as possible to prevent these atrocities from occurring in future
tournaments. This bill will be instated to change the internal problems and policies which FIFA
place upon themselves and host nations. This issues is global as to why the target audience that

could best help is the United Nations. Something must be done to address these important issues
which citizens around the world have pleaded that FIFA comply by. Something must be done
immediately and precisely to stop and to the abuse on the real victims of these actions, which are
the fans and citizens around the world affected by the actions of FIFA.

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