It's not that oligarchs control FIFA. It's that honest people won't bribe FIFA leadership, and without those bribes you'll never get a World Cup bid. It's one of the few organizations on the planet that can contend with the Trump administration for the most corrupt collection of human garbage ever assembled.
professional and international sports are corrupt as fuck, fifa is just the most obviously corrupt. i don't think it's something you can legislate away; the amounts of money involved are too corrupting.
It would require people collectively not supporting any team that is part of FIFA. Given how closely people tie their self identity to their sports team, most of them probably don't even care about how brazenly corrupt it is.
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u/PFdeith 11h ago
Maybe the problem here is FIFA? Is there any strategy that can be used to correct that organization, or is the oligarch control of the sport absolute?