The article's starting point is the statement made by FIFA's chairmen during protests in Brazilian cities, in June 2013, according to which democracy is an obstacle to the organization of the World Cup. Secondo of all, an analysis of a supposed "FIFA territory" introduced by the "World Cup General Statute" is made. The aim is to think of these two aspects through the tensions of Modernity, between the effectiveness of sovereignty and democracy understood as promises and the pressures of the market forces notably volatile and unpredictable. Thus, the political protests can be understood as the reaction to the privatization of public sphere and as a remainder that the fixation of "territories" can also be an opportunity to encounter and to exercise dissent.
FIFA; Constitutional Democracy; Sovereignty; Legitimacy; Freedom of Manifestation; Freedom of Speech