Make the Welt an even Bötter Place

Eager readers remember vividly FIFA president Joseph "Sepp" Blatter's call to make the welt a bötter place, a call that through the magic of music became the unofficial anthem for the World Cup 2014 in Brazil: Make the Welt a Bötter Place by Q. Wehrli.

Of course, to turn this promise into action, we need to know about FIFA, its mission and its inner workings, and how it manages to unite the world around the World Cup. In the television report Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: FIFA and the World Cup the host of the program John Oliver manages to do just that. Knowledge is power, after all!

This is the FIFA, Q. Wehrli sings about. This is the World Cup, Q. Wehrli celebrates, with tax-free profits for sponsors and billions for FIFA, all paid for by the people

Fun-Fact of the Week: Did you know that Q. Wehrli (pronounced KOO WHERE-LEE) in Swiss German sounds very much like Couvertli (small envelope, from French couvert - envelope)? Not that that fact implies anything specific.