Over the past month, the United States Department of Justice has dramatically cracked down on corruption that has plagued FIFA, the international governing body of soccer, since the 1970s. In an early morning raid at a luxury hotel, Swiss police arrested sports executives attending the annual FIFA Congress, just days before the organization’s elections were to be held at its headquarters in Zurich. With American officials flipping former FIFA executives such as Chuck Blazer, it seems clear that FIFA’s house of cards will inevitably fall apart.
Beyond the scope of the arrests, what has developed since this legal action is only more of the same in FIFA’s typical circus act.