"How FIFA Destroyed Itself"

You watch the World Cup every four years and believe it's the purest competition on Earth. But behind the scenes, FIFA was running one of the biggest corruption scandals in sports history — bribes, secret bank accounts, and an FBI investigation that took down its president.

In this video, we break down how FIFA's lack of financial transparency let executives sell World Cup hosting votes for decades, how a single FBI informant helped expose it all, and why the organization survived anyway.

Chapters:
0:00 The World Cup you think you know
0:12 How FIFA became a $100B business
0:56 The hidden World Cup vote scandal
2:57 The 2015 Zurich arrests
3:42 How the FBI got jurisdiction
4:13 The informant who brought it down
5:06 Sepp Blatter's downfall
5:32 Why FIFA never actually collapsed

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