Another Day, Another FIFA Official in Hot Water

The Guardian today details allegations that Nicolás Leoz, a Fifa executive committee member and long-serving president of Conmebol, the South American football confederation, took bribes totaling £90,000 back in 2000. The allegations come on the heels of the allegations that another FIFA lackey, Jack Warner, illegally sold World Cup tickets for his own personal gain.

Are we sensing a pattern here? Sure, these men are innocent until proven guilty, but even if FIFA magically clears their own brethren of wrongdoing there still is a real problem here. FIFA is rotting from within. It is hard to have the credibility necessary to uphold what is good for the sport when the very organization charged with doing that is known for its own corruption. Cronyism, corruption and FIFA have gone hand in hand for a long time now and you have to wonder if another term with Sepp Blatter as president is going to do anything to change that.