[miamibre]

Can someone explain to me how a independent third party like FIFA can be put on trial for corruption? I know that bribing officials and requesting bribes is illegal but if a government employee comes to you and offers you a trip to their country and takes you dining and wining that is perfectly fine.

I ask because I am not sure what the solution is to "Cleaning up FIFA" they are a massive entity that is not really beholden to anyone because they are private and are just in the business of taking money from people to have players play more football.

I'm very curious because most of the issues that sports face in the US is more about labor disputes / discrimination / cleaning up player's messes / hiding medical results that may showcase the sport in bad light which are awful in their own right but fall short of the massive amounts of money FIFA executives receive from countries trying to sportswash.

Like many people the Russia / Qatar WC have been nothing short of eye-opening in terms of just how little FIFA cares about anything except raking in massive piles of cash that they use for some vanity projects here and there but mostly just to pay their executives.