Alguns números interessantes sobre os espantosos resultados financeiros da FIFA no artigo “FIFA – Football Associaton or a Cash Cow Bank ?” de World Sport Intelligence. Um excerto:
“(…) Well, just for our readers to have an idea, between 2007 and 2010, FIFA’s revenues amounted to USD 4.2 Billion, more 1.6 billion than in the precedent 4 years.
Net profits between 2007 and 2010 were of USD 631 Million!
In those same 4 years 93% of FIFA’s revenues came from events it organized (87% from the 2010 South Africa World Cup 2010 in which FIFA cashed USD 3.7 Billion in Television and Marketing rights). (…)”