White Elephants

Lords of Soccer

08/18/22 • 37 min

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FIFA’s appalling behavior in Chile and Argentina is ancient history...right? You’d think world soccer’s governing body would have learned its lessons and modernized by 2014, but you’d be wrong. In the soccer-mad nation of Brazil, FIFA was faced with a choice between profits and people, and FIFA did what it always does - it put profits first. Screw the consequences.

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08/18/22 • 37 min

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Lords of Soccer - White Elephants

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For the last few episodes, you've heard about FIFA's historical fondness for brutal authoritarians. Specifically, it's a Paulium behavior in Chile, South Africa, and Argentina in the nineteen sixties and seventies, So you might ask, has FIFA changed, Has it learned any lessons? Of course not, It's FIFA, and that brings us to today's episode, a more modern tale about FIFA's avarice. When faced with the choice between prophets and human rights ethi