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FIFA 1975-2000: the business of a football development organisation
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Abstract The Fédération Internationale de Football Association
(FIFA) is the governing body of world football and
in this capacity has assumed the role of a global player in
the relationship between sport and politics. While in the
1960s and 70s the organisation produced a growing number
of political scandal... mehr
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association
(FIFA) is the governing body of world football and
in this capacity has assumed the role of a global player in
the relationship between sport and politics. While in the
1960s and 70s the organisation produced a growing number
of political scandals in world football it has demonstrated a
quite effective method of dealing with these problems in
more recent times. The article develops the argument that
this change for the better is a concomitant of the fact that
FIFA, from the 1980s on, is also an extremely dynamic
business profiting from the sale of TV rights for the World
Cup. This interpretation seeks to understand the role of
FIFA as a business against the background of its football
development programmes which have made the world soccer
federation a most effective International Non-Governmental
Organisation. Today, these football development
programmes are shaping the way the leading persons in
FIFA’s Zurich headquarters are defining their policies.
However, this development has had its price, because it has
given rise to serious internal political conflicts within FIFA.
As a consequence, the organisation’s politics of global integration
are extremely vulnerable.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Fußball; historische Entwicklung; Sportpolitik; Sportverband; ökonomische Faktoren
Klassifikation
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Freizeitforschung, Freizeitsoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
FIFA
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2006
Seitenangabe
S. 55-68
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 31 (2006) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.31.2006.1.55-68
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)