The Success Of A Nation's Soccer Team: A Bellwether Regarding A Nation's Electronic Information Infrastructure, The Legal Regulations That Govern The Infrastructure, The Resulting Citizen-Trust In Its Government And Its E-Readiness In Nigeria, The DPRK, China, Japan, South Korea, The Netherlands And The United States Page: 481
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THE SUCCESS OF A NATION'S SOCCER TEAM
The NFF has regulatory statutes in place that could eliminate match-fixing
corruption,82 but it simply turns its head and continuously allows this brazen
corruption to take place. The NFF seems to assume, why stop the corruption
when it is generating revenue for the NFF and providing an arbitrarily legal,
psychological opiate for its often upset, and sometimes violent, citizens?
Regulations that could extinguish this fraud can be found in Article 2(f)
promulgated by the NFF. This article grants the NFF the ability "to prevent all
methods or practices which might jeopardize the integrity of matches or
competitions or give rise to abuse of Association Football." Further, Article 7
of the NFF statutes states that the "bodies and Officials of NFF must observe the
Statutes, regulations, directives, decisions and the Code of ethics of FIFA" and
of the Confederation of African Football ("CAF").85 Both FIFA and CAF
directly eschew any form of match fixing, corruption and other similar acts of
fraud in an effort to maintain the integrity of the game. However, because these
regulations are not enforced by the NFF, this type of corruption weakens the
Nigerian soccer infrastructure by promoting brazen corruption, deterring highly
skilled Nigerian soccer players and coaches from participating in Nigerian
leagues, and injuring the international reputation of Nigerian soccer. These
actions also cause Nigerian denizens to lose interest in the local soccer leagues
because they lose trust that the owners are providing them with genuine soccer
competitions. 86
C. Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) - North Korea's
Demographics and Resources
Unlike Nigeria, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), more
commonly known as North Korea, is a closed society that does not project the
potential of producing a national soccer team that can win the World Cup. The
DPRK has a population of about 22,665,345 people, which ranks fifty-first in the
world.87 The gross domestic product of the DPRK is approximately forty billion,
which ranks ninety-sixth in the world.88 The DPRK soccer team also lacks
82. Nigerian Football Federation Statutes Article 2(f), http://nigeriaff.com/docs/
NFF%20Statutes.pdf (last visited Apr. 29, 2011). Although most of the statutes are vague, the NFF
could regulate and eliminate match fixing with Article 2(f), and Article 7.
83. See Bloomfield, supra note 48, at 156-58.
84. Nigerian Football Federation Statutes Article 2(f), http://nigeriaff.com/docs/
NFF%20Statutes.pdf (last visited Apr. 29, 2011).
85. Nigerian Football Federation Statutes Article 7, http://nigeriaff.com/docs/
NFF%20Statutes.pdf (last visited Apr. 29 2011).
86. See Bloomfield, supra note 48, at 160-61.
87. CIA World Factbook, supra note 46.
88. Id. The CIA World Factbook cautions that Korea does not publish any reliable National
Income Accounts data; the data shown here is derived from purchasing power parity ("PPP") GDP
estimates for North Korea that were made by Angus Maddison in a study conducted for the OECD;
his figure for 1999 was extrapolated to 2009 using estimated real growth rates for North Korea's2012]
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