Í Der Spiegel er fjallað um hið gerspillta Alþjóða knattspyrnusamband, FIFA, þar sem Sepp Blatter verður væntanlega endurkjörinn formaður á morgun. Það vita allir af spillingunni og af stjórnarmönnum sem nota stöðu sína til að auðgast. En samt heldur sirkusinn áfram. Þarna er vitnað í Financial Times Deutschland sem segir að FIFA sé álíka líklegt til að hreinsa sig innanfrá og mafían.

„FIFA is so contaminated by corruption and scandals that it can no longer be fixed without outside intervention. Too many officials … have abused the wealthy sports body for their personal benefit for too long.When the indications and evidence of favoritism and corruption can no longer be suppressed, then FIFA examines itself using the complacent self-administered justice of its ethics commission. Its procedures end, at best, with the sacrifice of a few pawns. Joseph Blatter does not need to fear the commission — he appointed most of its members himself. … FIFA is about as likely to purge itself as the Mafia.“