Intros

                The summers in Qatar are hot, really hot in fact the temperatures can reach up to one hundred and twenty degrees Fahrenheit this weather is not safe to be walking in much less play soccer in. On December 2^nd, 2010 FIFA, the world governing body of soccer announced that the 2022 World Cup would be played in Qatar. A country with no soccer history and incredibly dangerous playing conditions in summer when the World Cup is traditionally played. Not only that, but the country is known to have very little rights for migrant workers and by 2022 by two conservative estimates say there will be at least 4,000 dead migrant workers from working on building the stadiums. People across the World were flabbergasted by the decision, but that quickly turned to outrage. The decision made absolutely no sense so why did it happen, where did FIFA go wrong? The fact is that FIFA did not go wrong, FIFA is rotten. FIFA was and still is aware of the huge problem that the Qatar World Cup brings, but that does not matter all that matters to FIFA and its executives is money and there sure was a lot in this. It is painfully obvious that FIFA executives voting for the upcoming World Cup host were bribed and despite major outrage across the world FIFA has remained in support of Qatar as the 2022 World Cup host. For years it has been clear that the governing body of soccer across the world is corrupt, so how do we know this? Where did it start? And what is being done to stop it?

                When he was young all Sepp Blatter wanted to be was a footballer. The soccer fanatic had a chance too, he worked hard every day for hours to become the best he could be and eventually went to a trial for a local club and was offered a contract. Not soon after young Sepp’s dreams were crushed by his father who told him, “No son of mine will be a footballer,” and refused to sign Blatter’s contract. Sepp Blatter did not give up on his dream and found a way to have a life filled with soccer ironically though the little boy who loved soccer so much has become the man who is ruining it. Sepp Blatter is now seventy nine and the president of FIFA. FIFA is the nonprofit, world governing body of soccer with over one billion dollars in the bank. FIFA under Blatter has faced countless scandal and seems to have drawn up a business model designed after the mafia’s. Under Don Blatter bribery seems to be a common affair in the inner workings of FIFA and that is really just the tip of the ice burg. FIFA itself may be responsible for the deaths of over 4,000 people in Qatar and its executives have broken countless laws in multiple countries as they seem to think they are above it. Now if this is all true what is being done about it? Why is Blatter still in power and why is FIFA allowed to continue operating like this?

                Alexis Sanchez grew up in the Chilean mountain town of Tocopilla and he was dirt poor. Alexis had nothing, his father left him when he was a toddler, and his mother worked several jobs to support her four children, but Alexis did have one thing soccer. While soccer was his love and his escape from the world that he lived in he could not focus on it as from the age of six he had to get a job to help support his family and also attended school. Despite these obstacles Sanchez played and he practiced every day and he got good, real good. Sanchez was signed by a local club at the age of sixteen and was seen as a nobody there, the players didn’t understand who this kid was until his first game. The team was down 1-0 and struggling so the coach decides to put in Sanchez in as a second half substitute. Sanchez went on to score eight goals and proved what he could really be. From there it was smooth sailing all the way up to FC Barcelona and now Arsenal FC. Alexis Sanchez’s story is repeated all over the world, but it might not be so easy for some kids. Recently FIFA, the world governing body of soccer, has banned over four hundred children from playing soccer because they are foreign in the nation that they play in. FIFA is a corrupt nonprofit organization that cares more about making money than trying to fix the problems in the world of soccer. It has been surrounded by scandal and bribery for years and is ruining the game loved by billions of people around the world.