FIFA World Player of the Year

things that FIFA seemed to have in place, yet here we are with a great deal of corruption and football fans calling for reform. As the co-President of FIFA, I will help restructure an organization that will be free from corruption and that will restore the global soccer community’s faith in FIFA. The vision statement I would put in place as co-President is: “Changing the game. Changing the world.” While this vision statement is similar to the current statement “For the game. For the world.”, it…

Who or what is FIFA and why does the FIFA scandal concern me? First, let’s look into FIFA. FIFA (La Fédération Internationale de Football Association) is the international governing body of football (better known as soccer here in the US). FIFA is responsible for the organization of football 's major international tournaments, most notably the Men’s and Women’s World Cup. FIFA was founded on May 21, 1904 in Paris by delegates from Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and…

they tried, but I stuck with it and still play today. In the 10 years that I have played soccer, I have formed bonds and made memories that I never want to forget. In this respect, I think that soccer is a savior to people and societies all over the world. The world has become abundant with ethnic stereotyping, civil wars, and other terrible things. “The beautiful game” has helped ease the pains of these affairs. For example, FIFA (Federation of International Football Association) has instilled…

Female Players Accuse U.S. Soccer of Wage Discrimination” asserts the financial debates and gender gap the U.S. Women Soccer team argued to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Many would agree that professional athletes don’t have it easy. They are constantly pushing their bodies and minds to their limits, training almost all hours…

The purpose of this article is to elucidate the sociological insights that can be learned from analysing the relationship between political, economic and cultural phenomenon within football institutions at both a global and local level. Giulianotti and Robertson(2004) assert that football is vitally important to our understanding of globalisation because roughly one billion people have an interest in the sport and it allows these groups to interact. Soccer acts like a microcosm of the concept of…

gained popularity because it does not cost as much as other sports and people did not want to spend a lot of money. Over the years, there have been many great soccer players and Lionel Messi is working his way up to be one of them. Messi has gained the respect of many people and continues to wow them from what he is capable of. Because Messi is a highly dedicated soccer player, he has had many achievements throughout his early life and career. Lionel Messi was born on June 24, 1987 in Rosario,…

strongly across the world. Beginning in Ancient Greece and Rome, games of soccer became a fun pastime among many civilians. Eventually, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) formed to become the organization that regulates the games and processes of professional soccer. Furthermore, being formed in 1904 through a confederation of a few European countries, FIFA organizes the rules of the game and sets up the World Cup, being the championship game of the sport. The World Cup,…

soccer player on the U.S team won olympic gold and the FIFA Women’s World Cup? If you said Alex Morgan, you are correct. Alex came to be the youngest player of the U.S women’s national soccer team in 2009. In 2011 she was the first chosen at the Women’s Professional soccer draft. In 2012 at the Summer Olympic Games, because she helped the U.S women’s team beat Japan, she received her first Olympic gold medal. Three years later, she defeated Japan, again, in order to win the FIFA Women’s World…

between multiculturalism and Belgium Football. In recent years, football in Belgium has been noted as a great improvement. It moved from fifty third rank to the first in ten years in Fifa World Ranking. When Belgium National Team’s current squad and 2006 squad are investigated, big differences are outstanding. Being the first football team in Fifa World Ranking, Belgium National Team…

and football has initiated many controversies amongst viewers and sports fans in recent years. Soccer lovers had disputed the comparison of American football with their favorites. They believed the terminology “Football” is unfitting because the game is played using hands and contradict its name. Hence, novice mistook the difference between both sports. Soccer is commonly called Football in the rest of the world except in the United States with its own football called “American Football”. Lovers…