FIFA. What a joke.

The International governing body for all of soccer is one of the most powerful sports organizations in the world. This week, the United States Department of Justice and Swiss authorities came down hard on FIFA upper-level brass.

With elections just a few days away, FIFA could have done a lot of things to start to protect themselves from criticism, including postponing their presidential election process until more was known. Instead, as FIFA has been prone to do, the leaders acted like nothing was happening and went on with elections as-scheduled and, as predicted, Sepp Blatter won a fifth term at the shamefully corrupt organization’s helm.

Maybe if you just don’t acknowledge the facts, they won’t be true, guys.

Here are some facts via John Oliver prior to the 2014 World Cup…

and here’s another rant from about a week ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhAta_OWGZk

Basically, FIFA is an organization so corrupt, so out of control, and so clueless that not even arrests of a half-dozen or so vice presidents of the organization gave ANYONE any pause. Nobody so much as batted a freaking eyelid. Elections for president went on, Blatter — the favorite going in — won, probably because of the kickbacks he had already promised and/or given voting delegates.

To me, it can only mean that individuals and organizations are already too deep into the scam to go against Blatter.

For soccer fans, it’s not surprising, just despairingly affirming. Here’s to more chaos and conflict before anyone really believes that things are actually changing.

Conflict can really bring about change. If the amounts are proportional, I wouldn’t mind seeing a whole lot of conflict at the highest levels of the beautiful game right about now. The question is, is there anybody even close to the top who’s clean enough to take the sport on and fight a righteous fight?