Abstract
While the first special edition dedicated to women’s football came out at the beginning of the Women’s World Cup 2019 tournament, held in France, this second edition is released as the legacy of that tournament is being debated. FIFA is a janus-faced institution. It both governs and develops world soccer. Many analysts think that the governance and developmental roles should be separated because the organisaton has proven that it lacks transparency, an ethical code and progressive policies. FIFA is also a central command economic regulator – it has a monopoly on international tournament soccer from girl scouts to the world cup, and it makes its own rules. But since the 1980s it has increasingly neglected development in favour of a governance strategy that commercializes its assets for maximum financial benefits.Citation
Williams, J. (2019) Introduction to the second special edition of upfront and onside, Sport in History, 39(4), pp. 369-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460263.2019.1679445Publisher
Informa UK LimitedJournal
Sport in HistoryAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17460263.2019.1679445Type
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
1746-0263EISSN
1746-0271ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/17460263.2019.1679445
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