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Can FIFA change its ways?

Since May 2015, when the FBI exposed it as the most corrupt major sports organization in the world, FIFA has had to restore public confidence in its governance of global soccer. Yet here we stand, a day before the most critical presidential election in its history and these are the candidates who are competing for the job of instituting reform:

Gianni Infantino, an entrenched European soccer bureaucrat and second in command at Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) where he studied at the feet of Michel Platini, who was recently banned from soccer for fraud.

Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein is a member of the hereditary monarchy that has ruled Jordan since the nation's founding.