FIFA 1975-2000: the business of a football development organisation

Abstract: The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is the governing body of world football and in this capacity has assumed the role of a global player in the relationship between sport and politics. While in the 1960s and 70s the organisation produced a growing number of political scandals in world football it has demonstrated a quite effective method of dealing with these problems in more recent times. The article develops the argument that this change for the better is a concomitant of the fact that FIFA, from the 1980s on, is also an extremely dynamic business profiting from the sale of TV rights for the World Cup. This interpretation seeks to understand the role of FIFA as a business against the background of its football development programmes which have made the world soccer federation a most effective International Non-Governmental Organisation. Today, these football development programmes are shaping the way the leading persons in FIFA’s Zurich headquarters are d

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: FIFA 1975-2000: the business of a football development organisation ; volume:31 ; number:1 ; year:2006 ; pages:55-68 ; Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; Historical social research ; 31, Heft 1 (2006), 55-68

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Geschichte

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Eisenberg, Christiane

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.12759/hsr.31.2006.1.55-68
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-50082
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 14.08.2025, 10:56 MESZ