That meant just 22 people participated in a controversial balloting that, astonishingly, awarded the 2022 tournament to Qatar, a nation with scant soccer history that doesn’t have soccer-suitable summer weather, bans same-sex sexual activity and has a poor record of worker safety and rights. In 2010, the FIFA executive committee voted to select which countries would host the 20 men’s World Cup tournaments. 165, women’s team unranked) - will get equal say in choosing hosts of future World Cups.
And each one - from Brazil (five men’s World Cup wins, one of the world’s best women’s teams) to, well, let’s stick to Montserrat (men’s team never ranked higher than No. That means each one gets to cast a vote in the FIFA presidential election scheduled for this Friday in Zurich. Every member, from China ( population: 1.36 billion) to tiny Montserrat ( population: 5,215), gets one vote in the FIFA Congress. FIFA disproportionately favors its smaller states, leaving the most corruptible members with outsize control over the organization.įIFA has 209 member-nations, and each one’s soccer association is equally powerful in the sport’s governing body.
A comprehensive investigation might find that the sport’s structure itself makes soccer vulnerable to corruption. Justice Department says the indictments it handed down Wednesday against soccer officials and sports-marketing executives are just the beginning of its efforts to root out corruption in the sport.
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