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When economists, activists, writers and fans turn up the heat in World Cup Fever, it feels like a Sweatshop. Though the debate sees the constant flipping of the two-sided coin of Globalization. As Franklin Foer said in a recent interview with Fareed Zakaria, “the World Cup is a paradox because it’s at once a great spectacle of globalization fueled by multi-national corporations giving the world this common language of soccer, but at the same time it’s a festival of nationalism, so people thought that globalization was going to smush nationalism and the World Cup proves that it can actually facilitate nationalism.”1
This comes reinforced by economic numbers, as Newsweek showed that, “Previous World Cup winner nations get up to a 4% GDP boost; the loser’s GDP drops about .3%.” We see the economic importance of the World Cup and Soccer through Foer, but what of Globalization’s other impact on human rights, trade and labor? The Clean Clothes Campaign, along with Oxfam, recently released reports on the plight of women workers in Thailand producing soccer balls. Particularly the adidas Teamgeist (team spirit) football, used during this year’s World Cup.
At this paradoxical interweaving of Soccer’s position in Globalization is what two scholars claim, “evokes a transcivilizational issue.” Reebok Chairman Paul Fireman made the decision to stop purchasing soccer balls from Pakistan if they continued to use child labor, revealing a progressive idealism in business. Fireman said, “We’d like to see everyone join with us, and although this will sound bizarre in the world of business, we’d rather see the world operate at a better level.”2
This executive idealism is in unison with some of Soccer Culture’s more altruistic moments. When child activist Iqbal Masih escaped slavery in Pakistan as a carpet weaver, he was murdered in the limelight of his crusade making him a martyr of the movement. This inspired another child activist, Craig Kielburger, of Canada to carry the torch of this crusade against child labor, eventually founding the Free The Children Foundation. Reebok had its role in this, granting Masih with the Reebok Human Rights Youth Action Award. Putting Fireman’s ideal in the public spotlight, which could easily lead World Cup and soccer fans to associate the Reebok brand as a responsible globally influential company. As much as this is possible, a multinational like Reebok can’t shake the corporate image so tainted by industry wide use of sweatshops.
The paradox grows ever more when considering Nike’s dominate role with Brazil’s iconic footballer, Ronaldo. As United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador, Ronaldo is lionized by his efforts in Brazil and Kosovo to lift children out of poverty and into education. Nike can only hope to gain a respectable bit of pride-by-association through their sponsor deals. For instance Nike is a major sponsor of the Homeless World Cup, which lifts football talent out of poverty and onto the field. Though when players and coaches react to accusations made against companies like Nike, it can affect major sponsorship deals of not just pro, but college level teams. United Students Against Sweatshops have organized pressure across the country to cut sponsorship deals. This even drove St. John's University's soccer coach, Jim Keady, out of the job for refusing a $3.5 million Nike sponsorship for the school. Drove him out the job, but into a life-changing journey to Indonesia to live with Nike factory workers, the inspiration for his documentary Sweat. At a grassroots level, as Andrew Ross has noted, Nike has had its troubles with soccer fans too. In his book Low Pay, High Profile, Ross points out England’s Manchester United football club, whose fan based Stockholders “expressed their outrage to management at making a deal with the leading paymaster of global sweatshops”, that being Nike.3 Also noted by Donnelly and Petherick in their essay Worker’s Playtime?, “Although children are involved in the manufacture of sports and equipment other than soccer balls, and in other parts of the world…the focus has remained largely on the manufacture of soccer balls in South Asia. The authors go on to reveal that companies like Adidas-Salomon, Nike, Puma and Reebok continually violated their signed agreements prior to the 2002 World Cup to not use Child Labor.4
So do Child Laborers get playtime breaks, such as the 7,000 Pakistani children who got 6 cents an hour to make Nike soccer balls? One might ask Nike CEO Phil Knight what he meant when he said, “access to play should be a kid’s inalienable right.” 5 As much as companies have attempted to appease critics and weed out child labor from the soccer supply chain, the recent reports of the Clean Clothes Campaign expose that the problem also extends into other labor violations. Now that Adidas-Salomon owns Reebok its necessary to ask which faction of their efforts will take precedence: continued wage oppression or taking a global position in social responsibility. Its obvious of course how the corporations would respond to this, but the reality on the ground floor of factories is where action is louder than publicity. Both companies have codes of conduct and Adidas has a Standards of Engagement initiative with contracted factories throughout Southeast Asia. Unlike the boosts or drops caused by the World Cup in nationalistic economies, for multinational sport brands the championship kicks profits in one direction, up.
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(C) Electronic Arts
Date: 25-09-2009 Game Type : Sports
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What are the changes you guys would like to see in FIFA Clubs and Virtual Pro in FIFA 11? I'll list some of the changes I'd like to see
- Better system for determining virtual Pro overall rating. Right now the arbitrary accomplishments system is a complete joke. Your virtual pro rating for the most part should be based on game-to-game performance and your general form. Not silly little achievements. Of course physical attributes like speed, strength, and stamina would be based on the number of games you've completed and your height/weight.
- Better system for determine virtual pro in game rating especially for defense. When I play centerback keep a clean sheet in which my team won and have a passing percentage above 80% and finish with an in game rating below 8.0 something is terribly wrong. Defense isn't all about making tackles and blocking shots. Really it's about making it as difficult for the attack to score goals as possible. I shouldn't get a minus on defense just because the man I'm marking happens to receive a pass. Also I shouldn't only get boosts when I make a tackle. I should also get boosts when I make interceptions and hold off attacks long enough for the midfielders to get back.
- Harsher Rating Penalties for being caught out of position defensively.This is pretty much self explanatory. In the game of football it is better to err on the side of caution rather than aggression. If the central midfielders or players in the back four play too far up the field and happen to get caught out of position allowing a breakaway then they're rating should drop a lot more than it does in the game currently
- Harsher Rating Penalties for foolishly losing possession in attack, (particularly for forwards).I've played a couple of games as as a forward in Pro Club Championship and in clubs and it's ridiculous the amount of mistakes I can make while still finishing with a player rating above 9.0. Just because a forward scores 1 or 2 goals doesn't automatically mean they've played a good game. If a striker is continuously losing possession due to trying to force the ball forward his rating should drop considerably. In the current game forwards lose possession left and right with little penalty.
- Greater Reward for Clubs playing with more players/ Greater penalty for clubs playing with fewer players. Idealistically every club should be a 10 man club, or at least aim to be a club that consistently plays 10 man football, but from my experience there are actually some clubs that try and limit the amount of players they play with and the number of players on the club, which in my mind goes against the whole idea of FIFA clubs. Here is a list of things EA could do to encourage clubs to expand (which is what they should be trying to do anyway).
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- Increase the minimum number of players for FIFA clubs to 5 (right now the 3 man cutoff is too few players as far as I'm concerned)
- Get rid of the "any" position (if someone wants to basically control the whole team let them go play 1v1)
- Make the CPU generated player rating higher for teams with more active members on there club
- Keep the CPU A.I. poor that way club managers will be encouraged to recruit human players and play with as many players as possible
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- Allow players to play for more than 1 club on the same account. I don't like having to create multiple accounts in order to play for different clubs. In FIFA 11 make it so that I can play for up to three different clubs on the same account. (If my 5th suggestion is listened to there probably won't even be a need to play for multiple clubs because the best clubs would be huge 30-50 man clubs with players who would be playing at different times over the course of the day.
- Make controls manual. This would help differentiate between the poor, average, and great players. Unlike in Head-to-Head matches (where I don't think controls should be manual) where you need to make a bunch of passes and it's easy to lose concentration or slip up. In clubs you're controlling one player and reading your section of the field for the most part. Since you will only make a few passes over the course of the game (unlike hundreds in 1v1) I think an individuals concentration should be good enough to allow him to accurately direct those few passes in club games
Tell me what you think of my suggestions and post some of the things you'd like to see changed/improved.
And how can I forget, no more goalies under six feet tall.
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