The FIFA Corruption Scandal

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The FIFA’s executives and Officials days of freedom are numbered. Since May 2015 evidence has been released that can incriminate the sixteen members involved in the FIFA scandal. New evidence is released weekly about the FIFA corruption scandal and there comes a point where the arrest need to start to help the organization get passed the scandal. The questions at the start of the investigation were is FIFA actually corrupted? Did FIFA accept bribes during the World Cup voting process? Now the questions have shifted towards when will Sepp Blatter resign or get convicted? Will more evidence get uncovered in the upcoming weeks that will convict more FIFA officials? And can anyone be trusted to run FIFA? FIFA’s problems began with the president’s …show more content…

Sepp Blatter currently faces a ninety days suspension for his involvement in corruption. To show some progress FIFA will need to impeach the current president and get a new vice president. A new president does not mean FIFA will change to a new organization with no corruption. Domenico Scala, head of FIFA’s independent audit and compliance committee seems to be one of the only members in FIFA who is speaking the truth about the scandal. Scala acknowledges that there is corruption says “"We have to accept that corruption is systemic in football, if we accept it is systemic, we can start to do something about it. If we deny it, we dismiss the problem" (Scala). Scala understands that corruption is apart of soccer, he is thinking ahead and he needs more workers to acknowledge the fact that corruption is in the blood stream of FIFA. Scala goes on and says “There can be no 100-percent guarantee, there is always risk when you have national and monetary interest” (Scala). Scala is saying Corruption cannot be stopped; people who work to become rich will take shortcuts to become rich. As long as FIFA officials, executives and presidents are willing to cheat their way through corruption will occur, FIFA can vote for a new president, but every candidate could be corrupt so hiring a qualified and ethical candidate seems highly unlikely at the moment. Hiring a former soccer player can decrease the percentage of corruption happening because they love the game, know how much players suffer and go through during their careers and will not betray the team for

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