What Is Fifa For?

Alan Tomlinson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2026
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529245745 (ISBN)

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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, including 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 truly live up to its own mission of integrity, fair play and accessibility?

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	What Is It For?
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-13	9781529245745 / 9781529245745
Zustand	Neuware