31 - FIFA MAFIA: La Historia Criminal De La Institución Deportiva Más Grande del Mundo
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Messi, Cristiano, Neymar, all these superstars in the Qatar 2022 World Cup fields. But despite all this talent, this book reminds us that the most powerful player in all of football is FIFA. Here the criminal story of the biggest sports organization in history. Arrancamos con este nuevo episodio del podcast de Bibliotequeando, aquí les habla Ricardo Lugo, como siempre nos pueden seguir en las redes, arroba, bibliotequeando. Hoy les traigo un libro bastante de la época, estoy apenas, depende cuando escuchen ustedes esto, pero yo estoy a unas horas de que empiece el primer partido del mundial, Qatar-Ecuador, y por supuesto está toda esta nube negra encima del mundial, obviando las cosas de Qatar como país y toda esta cosa de los derechos humanos, de por sí la FIFA...
It brings with it this stigma, this mark of corruption, public accusations, money, exchanging hands illegally under the table. And I wanted to get a book, this for me seemed to be the best book, explaining how these things happen. Because it's very easy to say that an organization is corrupt. but you have to explain how they are, or it is good to understand at least how this type of activity happens. And this book, FIFA Mafia, seemed to me the best. Thomas Kirchner is an experienced sports journalist in Germany and he sought to answer that question. How is it that FIFA has become an extremely small organization, something so big, that is, the nations at a certain point in history The United Nations had fewer registered countries than FIFA.
So imagine, FIFA is a country, sorry, an organization that attracts more countries than the United Nations itself. So this summary is going to take a little bit, but basically we will learn how FIFA started, who was the patient zero, so to speak, of corruption, how they violate the laws today, how certain things they did were not illegal. They are illegal in most countries, but not where they work. And how is it that Adidas, in truth, started all this current FIFA policy? And of course, to answer all these questions, it is important to give context to organized football as such. It started with very basic goals. In 1888, when England invented football, the English Football League was founded, the EFL for its English acronyms.
And the goals were very, the objectives were very clear. It was simply to be able to organize games between official clubs within the country that could be assured, that could be paid to the players. That the fans had a good service and that there was a redistribution of the profits between all the teams within the league. And that's what football was in England. And then over time, In a hotel in Paris, about 20 years later, FIFA was founded. And it was founded by Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, France, Sweden, Spain. Germany said yes, but said, if you organize, I say yes later. But basically those were the first 7 countries, 7 and a half with Germany, that founded FIFA. The reason why this is important is because FIFA has always had the European brand on top.
It has always been a mainly European organization. and not an organization for the rest of the world. And that Blatter, Seb Blatter, the president, let's say, of my generation, who has been president since the 1998 French World Cup until four or five years ago, he always took advantage of that for his own political purposes.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:46
2
How did FIFA become the most powerful sports organization in the world?
4:46–11:54
3
What are the origins of FIFA's corruption?
11:54–14:59
4
How did Adidas influence FIFA's policies?
14:59–20:33
5
What role did Sepp Blatter play in FIFA's history?
20:33–25:26
6
How did FIFA manage the World Cup's financial aspects?
25:26–1:11:17
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