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"In this book, the history and underlying political dynamics characterizing the growth of FIFA and its relationships with global-regional federations and international associations are detailed in a helpful and concise introduction"--

The repercussions of the rise of totalitarianism in the interwar period and more precisely of the war itself on international sport have already been the subject of detailed studies, particularly around the International Olympic Committee (IOC), but football - and in particular the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) - is also an excellent analyst of this "turning point" in the history of the 20th century. Indeed, the 1930s and 1940s were key decades to understand the challenges of the politicization of football, to highlight how sports leaders operate in an ambivalent context, but also to analyse the transformation of the governance of an international organization between the attempts of interference driven by Axis forces and the "resistance" orchestrated by Secretary General. Thus, this article aims to question and analyse the investment of Axis forces around FIFA, particularly in the light of its continued activity during the war, using some original archives and documents from the FIFA documentation center.

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"The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a ground-breaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic corruption at the heart of world football. It was a book that FIFA and Sepp Blatter tried to ban. Now re-issued to combine the original contents of Badfellas with new chapters covering the current crisis, this book points to the ways in which FIFA's new administration can learn from the Blatter story. The prequel traces the course of Sugden and Tomlinson's game-changing investigation into FIFA, while the sequel updates the FIFA story from 2002 onwards and provides a chronology of crises and scandals within the FIFA narrative"--

Der Autor untersucht die Rolle Afrikas bei der Besetzung der Spitzenposition im Fußballweltverband FIFA insbesondere bei deren internen Präsidentschaftswahlen 1974, 1998 und 2002. Im Gegensatz zu seiner weltwirtschaftlich und weltpolitisch unbedeutenden Rolle habe Afrika im internationalen Sport und vor allem im Fußball einen beträchtlichen Stellenwert errungen und sei bei der Besetzung von Spitzenfunktionen zunehmend ein einflussreicher Faktor. Das Verhalten der FIFA gegenüber Afrika werde von dessen wachsendem Einfluss mitbestimmt. (DÜI-Kör)

Résumé Cet article propose un parcours à travers la circulation marchande des joueurs dans une aire internationale du football peu explorée, située entre l'Afrique et l'Asie. Mal placés dans les classements Fifa (Fédération internationale de football association), certains pays d'Asie ont développé une politique d'acquisition de joueurs étrangers pour élever le niveau national en vue des grandes compétitions internationales. Des pays africains, auxquels s'ajoute le Brésil, comptent parmi les plus gros pourvoyeurs de joueurs. L'Asie offre à certains d'entre eux une alternative à l'Occident, souvent inaccessible (sauf pour le très haut niveau). L'analyse de ces nouvelles polarités Sud/Sud permet de porter un regard oblique sur le sport le plus médiatisé de notre époque et de sortir ainsi des hiérarchies mondiales toutes faites qui font du Nord la mesure de toute chose et de l'Afrique un continent en perpétuel asservissement.

When Sepp Blatter joined Fifa in 1975 it had just twelve employees. Forty years later, the FBI have accused 14 executives of 47 counts of money laundering, racketeering and tax evasion linked to alleged kickbacks totalling more than $150m. Football has become the premier global sport, a television and commercial powerhouse, while Fifa, the organisation which runs it, turned bad. The crumbling of Fifa and the shock resignation of Blatter days after his re-election in June 2015 is the most spectacular story of corruption sport has ever seen. There are international investigations into alleged bribery and fraud committed by some of Fifa's top executives, and the deeply murky vote surrounding the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments to Russia and Qatar is under sharp scrutiny, with criminal investigations under way in the US and Switzerland. This is a story of globalisation, of the changing geography of wealth and power, of how a most beloved of sports could be so rotten at the top. David Conn is writing the definitive account of Fifa's rise and fall, the key, larger-than-life personalities and power-brokers responsible for it, told with a love of football's history and the context to make sense of it all. Covering the events of the next eighteen months – including the FBI's investigation, the consequences for Blatter, enquiries into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup, who takes over the presidency and their agenda – it promises to be a fascinating account.