

The Call Heard Around the World Cup
FIFA has spent years telling anyone who would listen that it changed its ways in regard to its corruption issues. Among their efforts include a new disciplinary code, “independent” judicial bodies, a governance overhaul built to bury the memory of the bribery scandals that put more than a dozen officials in the reach of U.S. prosecutors in 2015. Then, on a Sunday in July, a phone call from the President of the United States undid a good part of that work in a single news cycl

Elizabeth Rogers
Jul 136 min read
