The governing body of soccer around the world, FIFA, is going to be hosting a conference on the importance of ethics in sports later this year. The conference, which will take place on September 19th in Zurich and in the words of FIFA, the conference will "help define the role of sports in solving society’s problems and highlight examples of best practice".HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ohhh that's a good one, haha oh I probably had you going there for a... hold on... oh they're serious. Yes you read that, FIFA, the organization that is currently undergoing increased scrutiny over the alleged (they totally did it) corruption charges surrounding both the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process. FIFA, the organization that forced Brazil to pass a law allowing the sale of beer in soccer stadiums, which had previously been banned due to it's link to high mortality rates. The same organization that is having the stadiums built for the 2022 World Cup by modern day slave labor. The list goes on and on and on, and now this... The announcement of this conference is audacious bordering on disgusting. FIFA needs to stop pretending they're some clean organization, and that we all don't know how corrupt they are. Stop making symbolic gestures about ethics and actually do something about the fact that your own president protects his own crooked executives all while hiding his shady dealings.
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