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What Is FIFA For?
Series: What Is It For?
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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...
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Examining the organisation's successes 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?
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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?
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ISBN: 9781529245745
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Illustration: 1 Tables, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Audience: Tertiary education
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Width: 127.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 192
About the Author
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.
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