Leaders | The awfulness of FIFA

An embarrassment to the beautiful game

Swiss parliamentarians and commercial sponsors should push to reform a rotten organisation

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This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “An embarrassment to the beautiful game”

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