Fifa Persuasive Essay

The Fèdèration Internationale de Football Association, better known as Fifa, has been a stain on the beautiful game for over 24 years. Fifa is a grotesque organization that generates billions of dollars while remaining a nonprofit entity. Fifa needs to be exposed for its atrocious crimes and punished for their actions.
Outside of the United States, football or soccer, is much more than a game. Football is a way of life. It is a religion. In theory, FIFA should have given football fans everything they craved: large tournaments, epic, memorable contests between colossal footballing giants, and worldwide collaboration to bring progress to the game. However somehow it went all wrong. FIFA was created on the 21st of May 1904 by delegates from Denmark,
In 2010 the World Cup was held in South Africa. Fifa, worried about the high crime rate in South Africa, established 56 “Fifa World Cup Courts” across the country with the intention of delivering speedy justice during the tournament. However speedy seems like when you hear two Zimbabweans who robbed a foreign journalist on a Wednesday, were arrested that Thursday and began 15 year jail sentences the next day. There is no way these trials could have been conducted fairly while being that fast. The 2014 World Cup held in Brazil showed even more flaws. When the cup was first announced in Brazil the citizens reaped the benefits of foreign investors. The Brazilian economy grew by 4.5% because of money flowing into the country for the cup. However in May 2014, just weeks before the tournament began, Brazil’s economy plummeted. The Brazilian government invested $11.7 billion into the tournament to meet Fifa’s strict stadium requirements. On the contrary to popular belief, countries hosting the World Cup make no money, Fifa makes all of the money. Brazil spent 3 billion dollars on stadiums alone. The Arena Amazonia, built in the jungle city of Manaus, is nearly impossible to reach by car, the parts for the stadium needed to be shipped from Portugal across the Atlantic ocean, and through the Amazon River. The stadium costed 300 million dollars and will cost 250 thousand dollars a month for upkeep. The Stadium hosted 4 games during the World Cup and now sits dormant, with no team in Manaus to occupy it, it is obsolete. The Estadio Nacional in Brasilia, cost $550 million dollars to build. The stadium now acts as a bus parking lot, the sleeping giant also has no team to occupy its more than 700,000 seats. The Brazilian population was livid “we’ve heard it in the United States before, too. Better schools or better aircraft carriers? And in Brazil it’s the same, better soccer stadiums