What Is Fifa For?

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4574-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 124 mm x 201 mm, Gewicht: 208 g

Reihe: What Is It For?

A wide-ranging look at football’s powerful but controversial governing body.

Football is the world’s most popular sport and truly a global phenomenon. As a result, it attracts huge sums of money from its advertisers, sponsors and broadcasters, much of which flows to FIFA, the sport’s international governing body. So, given its decidedly chequered history, the question of what FIFA is for is crucial to the game’s future.

Examining the organisation’s successes such as the explosion of interest in the women’s game, alongside its failures and continuing crises over corruption and ethics, Alan Tomlinson asks: what will it take for FIFA to genuinely live up to its own mission of integrity, fair play and accessibility?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomlinson, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sportveranstaltungen, Sportmanagement, Teams & Clubs
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten American Football Fußball
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrecht / Öffentliches Wirtschaftsrecht Sport- und Veranstaltungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Korruption
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: FIFA – What’s at Stake?

2. FIFA and the Making of the Modern Game

3. FIFA and its Members

4. FIFA and its Commercial Partners

5. ‘Good-looking Governance’: Investigating Corruption

6. FIFA and the Americas

7. FIFA in Africa and Asia: Challenges and Constraints

8. FIFA and the Women’s Game

9. A Law unto Itself?

10. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Tomlinson is Emeritus Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Brighton UK and a pioneer of critical sport and leisure research, blending cultural studies with investigative and in-the-field research. He has been writing about FIFA since the big money started to flow in the 1980s and has written extensively on sport and leisure themes.