FOOTBALL CLUBS – FINANCIALS, BEHIND THE SCENES

Sorin Cristian Nita

Marathon, 2016, vol. 8, issue 2, 240-243

Abstract: As we all know, soccer is one of the most popular games on earth. More than 240 million people around the world play soccer regularly according to the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The game has evolved from the sport of kicking a rudimentary animal-hide ball around into the World Cup sport it is today. Records trace the history of soccer back more than 2,000 years ago to ancient China. Greece, Rome, and parts of Central America also claim to have started the sport; but it was England that transitioned soccer, or what the British and many other people around the world call “football, into the game we know today. The English are credited with recording the first uniform rules for the sport, including forbidding tripping opponents and touching the ball with hands. The idea behind this article, is not to explain the rules of the game, which are well known by people all around the globe, but rather to try and expose a less visible area, the financials behind a football club.

Date: 2016
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