In South Africa the national government invested more than R30-billion in preparing to host the event.

The association says that 70% of its expenditure goes to support football the other 30% covers its administrative costs. The available numbers allow for some retrospection about who benefited most and least from the 2010 event.įifa spent R13-billion on the 2010 World Cup, mainly in the form of prize money, a contribution to the local organising committee and television production costs, and the South African government spent R30-billion on preparations to host it.įifa’s wage bill, as stated in its 2010 report, was $65-million. At the time the payments were made, in January 2008, this would have been worth R70-million – a negligible amount in the context of the billions of dollars flowing in and out of the event. Local reports have focused on the payment of $10-million to the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football under Jack Warner – alleged to have been a bribe in return for votes that helped South Africa win its bid to host the event. Transparency International, which has long called for Fifa reforms, has now urged the organisation to enlist independent oversight to do so. Australia has announced it will no longer bid for the 2023 Women’s World Cup, pending the outcome of Fifa reforms. Kenyan news site the Daily Nation implored sponsors to put pressure on the association, noting “exclusive, rich and powerful, Fifa cannot reform itself”. The Economist wrote that the process would not be easy when “the reality is that Fifa’s structure nurtures corruption”. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach this week warned that the reform of Fifa would be a painful process. The reform job should not be left to Fifa itself, observers say, with one likening this to letting Ponzi scheme crook Bernie Madoff reform the financial system. The organisation will get a new president at the end of the year, amid widespread calls for reform to make it more transparent and accountable.

Members of a construction cartel, found by competition authorities to have rigged bids and ramped up prices by several billion when building the stadiums that hosted the matches, have already paid R1.5-billion in fines as penance for their collusion.įifa’s awards of World Cup rights to Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022 may now have to be revisited. The recent claims of corruption related to South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 World Cup are not the first. Using legislation enacted to tackle criminal enterprises such as the Mafia for its investigation, the FBI is alleging that rampant corruption became “endemic” to international football association Fifa.

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