Introduction On 27th May 2015, FIFA officials were preparing to attend the 65th FIFA Congress where the election of the new President was on the agenda. Before the meeting, Swiss police arrested 7 FIFA officials on behalf of the United States Department of Justice who indicted them on wire-fraud and money laundering charges. The arrests were a culmination of a lengthy investigation spanning for the better part of two decades concerning bribery charges. In 2013, FIFA’s ethics