FIFA corruption occurs. How FIFA corrupted the World Cup, and how Russia 2018, and Qatar 2022 took advantage of it.

 

This blog today explores the extent of corruption plaguing FIFA FIFA corruption occurs. How FIFA corrupted the World Cup, and how Russia 2018, and Qatar 2022 took advantage of it. Vox https://youtu.be/BlKVfJg4hHE.

On December 2, 2010, FIFA announced the 2022 World Cup would take place in a surprising country, Qatar. At that same meeting, they also announced that the 2018 World Cup would take place in Russia.

These selections set off a new chapter in FIFA’s history, one where the public would have a greater sense of how bribery and corruption have a huge role in who gets to host this international sporting event.

The last 14 World Cup locations were decided by a group of 24 powerful men within FIFA called the executive committee. Their votes meant a lot to bid nations and allegations of bidders bribing members of the committee lingered for decades. These allegations reached a new level when criminal investigations were launched nearly five years after that FIFA announcement. The fallout of these investigations nearly broke FIFA and tainted the World Cup. Watch the latest episode of Vox Atlas to understand how FIFA corrupted the World Cup host selection process.
 

The FIFA president said in 2019 Costa Rica could host the World Cup, and vowed ‘never again’ to corruption scandals in soccer. FIFA President Gianni Infantino 3 years ago, called on world football to “never again” return to the corruption scandals that shook the sport in recent years and led to the imprisonment of numerous leaders. “We never want to live what we have lived in FIFA, CONCACAF, and Costa Rica,” said the leader in a press conference in Costa Rica, referencing the scandal known as “FIFAgate,” which exposed corruption in world football.
 

Recalling that case, which occurred before the start of his term at the helm of FIFA in 2016, Infantino said that international football “was much more than very bad — it was clinically dead” according to Tico Times in 2019.
 

Eduardo Li, the former president of the Costa Rican Football Federation, Fedefutbol https://www.fedefutbol.com/ was one of those arrested and sentenced in the United States for accepting bribes, as were the football leaders of other Central American countries.
 

“There is no going back. If someone still in Costa Rica, in Central America, in North America or the Caribbean believes they can come to football to cheat to get rich against the interests of football, we don’t want these people,” Infantino said.
 

Last week, Concacaf President and FIFA Vice President Victor Montagliani sent best wishes to all four of the region's men's national teams – Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States – who are competing in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
 

Also, a week ago, the Privy Council in London denied former FIFA vice president Jack Warner's request to be extradited to the United States to face trial on up to twelve counts of corruption allegedly committed during his time in office.
 

Costa Rica vs Spain World Cup Match yesterday: How bad was it?
 

Costa Rica got their World Cup campaign off to the worst possible start, as they suffered their heaviest-ever defeat at a World Cup, going down 7-0 to Spain at the Al Thumama Stadium. In what was one of the darkest days in Costa Rican football.
 

A horror half for La Sele, completely dominated by Spain, highlighted by the fact they completed 537 successful passes, the most recorded in a half of World Cup football.
 

Costa Ricans didn’t just lose by seven goals but were also the first nation since the 1990 World Cup not to register a single shot on target. A complete shame for all of us.

There is no shame in losing a game of football, but the meek and sluggish manner in which Costa Rica lost against Spain was unforgivable, a disaster class from start to finish in every department. There was no creativity going forward and utter shambles defensively; they didn’t even lay a glove on the Spaniards. And that is also corruption.
 

With the last three administrations, Luis G. Solís, Carlos Alvarado, and now Rodrigo Chaves, Costa Rica is falling apart, its democracy, its education, its tourism, its institutions, its economy, and now its soccer.
 

For the good of Costa Rica, we wish the government success, but the signs it has given, not fulfilling electoral promises, are more than worrying.San Jose Costa Rica November 24, 2022 rafaelvilagut@gmail.com. Despite the way the world is going with wars, crises, etc., we must be thankful for the good and especially today, which is largely celebrated on Thanksgiving Day.