[SCB]46. FIFA reported almost $200M in net profit.

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FIFA reported almost $200M in net profit.

FIFA has reported a profit of $196million in 2009 and increased its reserves to more than $1billion, as the appeal of soccer defies the global economic crisis.

In its most recent financial report, the game's world governing body(국제연맹) posted(발표하다) a $12million increase in profit from 2008.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter says the financial report shows that handing the 2010 World Cup to South Africa was a sound(건전한) financial and commercial decision.

The report supports Blatter's statement by stating that South Africa has posted marketing revenues that surpassed the previous two tournanments in Germany in 2006 and in Korea and Japan in 2002.

It also adds that FIFA has thus far (여태까지)made it through (극복하다)the turbulence(격동) in the financial markets and the global recession unscathed(아무 탈이 없는).

The organization says it will distribute some of its extra cash - earned mostly from better-than-expected television and marketing deals - to its continental(대륙) and national members.

(Source: Business Week; March 19, 2010, "FIFA Reports $196M Profit, $1B Reserve Fund")

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