Why is sport organized around nation-states? Why does the spot where some clown in the nineteenth century drew a border have to rule the way we organize sport?
FAs suck. They are almost without exception anti-democratic. Why should these people be the only ones with a say in the way the game is run?
Why do FAs have to be national? Why can there only be one FA per country?
FIFA operates according to Westphalian terms - every FA is sovereign in its own area and can never be touched (even when they are corrupt as all hell); and only the FAs may speak at FIFA (even though clubs and leagues are where the real action is).
Imagine you could abolish FIFA and start from scratch. How would you create a body to govern world football? Would you retain national FAs? How would you give clubs and fans a say? How would you combat the obvious possibilities for corruption?
FAs suck. They are almost without exception anti-democratic. Why should these people be the only ones with a say in the way the game is run?
Why do FAs have to be national? Why can there only be one FA per country?
FIFA operates according to Westphalian terms - every FA is sovereign in its own area and can never be touched (even when they are corrupt as all hell); and only the FAs may speak at FIFA (even though clubs and leagues are where the real action is).
Imagine you could abolish FIFA and start from scratch. How would you create a body to govern world football? Would you retain national FAs? How would you give clubs and fans a say? How would you combat the obvious possibilities for corruption?
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