Now That Americans Love Soccer, We’ve Also Become Its Referee

How FIFA Corruption Charges And New U.S. Fans Could Alter the Pitch for the World's Most Popular Sport

Not too long ago, Americans couldn’t care less about the world’s most popular sport. Now we care so much we are not only going to be a force to be reckoned with on the soccer pitch, we’re going to try cleaning up the sport’s international governing body. Hence the breathtaking corruption charges brought on Wednesday by U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch (who’ll become a global rock star with this case) against a number of FIFA’s top executives, several of whom were extradited to the United States by Swiss law enforcement. …