Awhile back there was a thread about FIFA controversy in soccer and a possible PetroShoeCo connection. I didn't have time to comment then. I don't have much insight to add except this: if a global PetroApparel oligopoly market regime were to be imposed, and if it were to have to be implemented in part by gaining control of crucial sports institutions to be used enable the implementation of the global PetroApparel Producer Oligopoly regime, well, then it stands to reason that FIFA, like the NCAA, has to be subjected to regime change in order to subordinate it to the new order.
One historical way to subordinate legacy institutions is apparently to insinuate your agent producer oligopoly firms into business with them, then have your agent organization engage in whatever form of corruption that legacy institutiona requires them to engage in, then engage the USA legal/regulatory system (backed by USA military force and central bank force) to "look into the corruption," make your agent organization pay a fine that it passes the cost of onto its consumers, then mobilize to destabilize and regime change the corrupt institutional organization that was your target for regime change all along.
There are reputed historical examples of this sort of thing involving oil companies paying bribes in conflicted third world countries, after which those third world countries legacy institutional organizations get a serious dose of regime change. Same in airlines seeking access to airports globally and seeking to sell planes in foreign markets, especially during the era of airline deregulation and reregulation. You read about it every once in awhile when the Anglo-American private oligarchy is expanding into foreign markets and wants to impose its agenda of producer oligopoly regimes on the new foreign markets. It is apparently just how business is done in the rather more anarchic international realms.
Foreign legacy institution is corrupt to some degree or another.
Pay it bribes that are its normal mode.
Leak and investigate.
Have the Anglo-American firm apologize for paying the bribes and say its the only way for American producer oligopolists to participate.
This generates a rationalization for legal/regulatory intervention in the publics mind in foreign countries' institutions and that in turn opens up the option of swinging the big military stick if the foreign legacy institutional organization won't reconform to new producer oligopoly regime needs.
Go sick'em.
In five-10 years, voila, the legacy institutional organization is "reformed" to producer oligopoly regime needs.
FIFA and its hold on crucial soccer would appear a prime candidate for such regime change.
So: hypothetically speaking, let's epigram this Jim Carville style as: its about the regime change, stupid.
Then wait and see if evidence accrues over time that supports or refutes the hypothesis.
Next.