who really wins

from the radio, i heard of the site who really wins, it is about south Africa hosting the fifa world cup 2010.
definitely, this event has put south Africa on the world map, but what are the prices that they have to pay for this hosting? many in south Africa do not have much benefits we consider essential. essentials like free-flowing water, electricity, toilets, items none of us could live without. instead of trying to raise the poverty, government is using it to draw fame by building a 46,000 seat stadium. they are proud of the stadium, but for how long.
instead of trying to help the people, they are spending precious money, precious in a sense that it will put a stop to poverty, to bid and eventually to host the world cup this year. perhaps the people are wondering, thinking of the fact that they are not exactly the richest nation, yet the are holding such a big-scale event, which may dent the nation.
but, in everything, there are two parties, the winner, and the loser. if S.Africa loses in such a situation, who wins. that will be Fifa itself. hundreds, thousands, millions around the whole world, fans of the world cup, all the money, is most probably swallowed by Fifa itself. it has got television rights and so on, fifa has already got its money.
fifa act like the good Samaritans, offering tickets to those who laboured for this project, the construction workers. but if they give tickets to the affected, it will be countless. public funds are being taken, people thrown into poverty, all for the entertainment of us. perhaps man is selfish by nature, for our entertainment, who should we thank, Fifa, or the south Africans.