Bids for mega events are promoted by influential, politically connected persons and groups who operate in abstraction from public accountability. Gradually, authoritarian governments that do not have to take cognisance of public opinion are bidding for ...
Players from several countries, including Australia, Canada, Sweden, Denmark,
In its quest to increase membership, Fifa often turned a blind eye to the undermining of democracy and the violation of human rights in member states. According to, the “World Cup was milked for propaganda by Mussolini’s Italy in 1934, the vicious military junta of Argentina in 1978 and Vladimir Putin’s Russia in 2018”.
There have also been controversies and allegations of corruption relating to how Fifa sells its TV rights, elects its president and chooses the hosts for the World Cup. For example, as reported in 2008 by, “there was barely a murmur in 2006 when a federal judge in New York found that Blatter subordinates secretly tried to strike a sponsorship deal with Visa in violation of a contract with long-time sponsor Mastercard. Fifa paid Mastercard $90-million to settle the case.
The costs of the stadiums trebled without any public oversight. In November 2015 the Competition Commission identified several large construction companies that were guilty of collusive practices that was estimated to have cost the fiscus R14-billion.
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