{"id":12347,"date":"2010-12-02T23:07:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T04:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=12347"},"modified":"2020-02-15T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T03:36:00","slug":"another-set-back-for-the-united-states-on-the-stage-of-international-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2010\/12\/another-set-back-for-the-united-states-on-the-stage-of-international-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Set-Back for the United States on the Stage of International Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>FIFA, the organization that manages world soccer, has just announced that the 2018 World Cup will be held in Russia and that the honor of hosting the 2022 event will go to tiny Qatar. The U.S. had made an aggressive bid to host the 2022 games, and it was considered the favorite to win the competition for that event over Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Qatar, the other bidders. Sports Business Daily<\/em> has already called the decision \u201canother devastating blow to the U.S. on the global sports stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. effort was directed by United States Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati, who is a native of India and also a professor at Columbia University. Aiding in the effort were former President Bill Clinton, who appeared before the selection committee, and current President Barack Obama, who appeared via video message. Actor Morgan Freeman also played a major role in the U.S. presentation. Apparently the cosmopolitan composition of the U.S. team was not enough to carry the day. In many ways, the loss of the 2022 World Cup was even more embarrassing than the U.S. team\u2019s loss to Ghana in this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n

This is the second major organizational setback in two years for the United States, following its failure to obtain the 2016 Olympic Games. Allegations that the deck was fixed against the United States in regard to the World Cup have already surfaced. On Thursday morning (today), Sports Illustrated<\/em>\u2019s soccer columnist Grant Wahl posted a column on SI.com entitled: \u201cChoice of Russia and Qatar as hosts raises questions of FIFA integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever the reason for the decision it is now apparent that the ability of the United States to influence international sports authorities is at an all-time low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FIFA, the organization that manages world soccer, has just announced that the 2018 World Cup will be held in Russia and that the honor of hosting the 2022 event will go to tiny Qatar. The U.S. had made an aggressive bid to host the 2022 games, and it was considered the favorite to win the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-law","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28955,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347\/revisions\/28955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}