Planet FIFA (2016) - full transcript

- International
football, top FIFA officials

were arrested at dawn at a
Zurich hotel in Switzerland.

- May 27th, 2015,

the FBI throws out a wide dragnet.

Police burst into this Zurich hotel.

- Six
high-ranking FIFA officials

have been arrested in Switzerland

as part of a massive corruption probe.

- On the eve of the 65th

FIFA congress in September,

seven heads of the organization



are arrested in Switzerland.

- Could face
extradition to the U.S.

- With the FBI, you never
know what they're gonna do

and then one day everybody
goes to jail, right.

That's the way it works.

- It's a staggering blow

to the extremely closed circle
of professional football.

For the first time, FIFA
leaders find themselves

behind bars on corruption charges.

- These individuals,
through these organizations,

engaged in bribery to decide
who would televise games,

where the games would be held,

and who would run the organization

overseeing organized soccer worldwide.



- FIFA is a
sprawling multinational

worth billions in revenues.

But some of its high-ranking
executives have pocketed

a great deal of money
in bribes and kickbacks.

- Right from the beginning I
could smell FIFA was corrupt.

- Some FIFA
officials in particular

have exchanged their influence

for lucrative marketing contracts

or the selection of who hosts World Cups.

- Those sums
went into the pockets

of sport officials and that was proved.

I'm not being informed
simply of accusations.

- For over 40 years,

FIFA leaders have carried
on with absolute impunity.

In Europe, the legal
system closes it eyes.

- Switzerland had years
and so many scandals

that they could have investigated,

years and years of scandals.

But FIFA's very powerful in Switzerland.

- The winner is Qatar.

- We've seen people around the world were

getting more and more angry

and more and more concerned about

the way FIFA was being run.

- At the heart of the global

FIFA scandal is Sepp Blatter,

its iconic president
for the past 17 years.

- You cannot fight mafia.

- I'm certain that Blatter

is the brains behind
all of the corruption.

- Moore takes the kick

and Geoff Hurst puts England level.

- In 1984, no
one really knew about FIFA,

not even in Switzerland.

In the eyes of the public it didn't exist.

It was simply unheard of.

- Will the FIFA executives bring

the whole organization
down with themselves?

- Can you say what's going

to happen to FIFA today?

- Can this organization

become virtuous once again

and restore the ideals of its founders?

To date this has not happened.

- Goal!

- And yet
everything started so well.

112 years ago, on May 21st, 1904,

the International Federation

of Football Association was born,

in an interior courtyard of
229 Rue Saint Honore in Paris.

- It was very small.

If you look at what the
international federation was

it was ridiculous, it
was in a small apartment.

They had only one secretary, that's all.

- Back then,

football didn't generate much revenue.

FIFA was a nonprofit organization.

- FIFA's first
officials were instilled

with a sense of international cooperation,

meaning the idea of international meetings

and congresses with associations

in the domains of the
arts, culture, and sports

all making contributions

to advancing international
peace and progress.

- The Federation
sought to go global

but in reality it included only

a handful of European countries.

It was a rather exclusive group.

- At first, FIFA's origin was

a sort of small European community.

It included the Netherlands, Belgium,

France, Switzerland, Germany, and Denmark.

- In 1921, a Frenchman
becomes FIFA's president.

His name is Jules Rimet

and will make his mark on
the history of football.

- Jules Rimet
was a rather small man.

We nicknamed him the white mouse.

- Intelligent, a good talker,

a seducer, a little political.

- Rimet wants to
go into politics but he fails.

He then turns to football

and presents FIFA with a great idea,

to create a World Cup.

The problem is that there already

is an international football tournament,

that of the Olympic games,

organized by the International
Olympic Committee.

The IOC therefore sees the creation

of a new international competition

in a very unfavorable light.

- The
International Olympic Committee

did everything it could to keep

the World Cup from being created.

Why?

Because in the preceding years,

the world Olympic soccer championship

had become very important.

It was the only worldwide
soccer tournament.

There wasn't yet a World Cup

and they hoped to remain the only ones.

- The IOC rejects the idea

of creating a World Cup

but to compensate for
Rimet's disappointment,

it agrees that FIFA can

organize the Olympic football tournament.

This is a turning point for FIFA.

It soon has 28 members and the round ball

is becoming increasingly
popular worldwide.

- FIFA decided it was satisfied

as the soccer tournament on its own had

generated more money from spectators

than all of the other sports put together.

- In 1930, Jules Rimet cuts ties

with the International Olympic Committee.

He creates the first World Cup
in the history of football.

Uruguay had won the last
two Olympic tournaments.

It's the best team in the world.

Jules Rimet wants to end the
monopoly of European countries.

He proposed that Uruguay
should organize the event.

- So, Uruguay
announced its candidature

to host the first World Cup.

Everyone said amen.

But no one thought about travel.

At the time you took a
ship to go to Uruguay.

Travel and the tournament together would

take the Europeans almost two months.

- It's the early 20th century.

South America is at the end of the world.

And FIFA's funds are empty,

it cannot finance anything.

Several delegations
forego making the trip.

Only four European teams
sail for Montevideo.

The crossing takes three weeks.

The first World Cup sees
a victory for Uruguay.

It is a hugely popular event.

The history of FIFA is in the making.

Jules Rimet wants to
expand the organization.

In 1932, he makes the decision to locate

the headquarters to Zurich Switzerland.

It is a country at the center of Europe

and well connected by train.

But Switzerland's location in itself

does not sufficiently explain
Rimet's very strategic choice.

- Why Switzerland?

In the 1930s there are
important monetary problems

including devaluation
and control of exchanges

and Switzerland has a stable currency

which is obviously essential

for ensuring revenue and payments to FIFA.

- In the 1930s,
FIFA's idealistic aims

were at odds with the rise
of the fascist regimes.

In 1934, Mussolini uses football

to showcase his fascist regime.

- The encounter
takes place in front

of a record breaking
crowd, 60,000 spectators.

- Four years later,

on the eve of the Second World War,

it's France's turn to host the tournament.

- The crowd is anxious

as the Italians dominate.

A pass to the Italian downfield.

- In Paris, on French soil,

in front of the spectators
and cameras of the stadium,

the players of the German
team display the Nazi salute

to the great despair of
FIFA President Jules Rimet.

- He saw it
unfortunately as a failure.

He told me I had false allusions.

I thought it could help
delay or avoid the war,

maybe create negotiations as
all the parties were together.

- In the 1950s,

after the Second World
War, the world changes.

Colonialism is collapsing
and former colonies

become involved in the
development of football and FIFA.

- In the 1960s and '70s,

the countries that became independent

joined FIFA first before
the United Nations.

That shows the importance of

the FIFA hierarchy compared to the UN.

- In the early '60s,

the Brazilians are the best
football players in the world.

Their technique is spectacular.

- The artists are virtuosos.

The athletes have extraordinary abilities.

- But FIFA is
still led by Europeans.

In 1961, it also chooses a new president,

an Englishman named Stanley Rous.

Rous believes primarily
in European football.

- Stanley Rous was above all

an international referee.

His vision of how football

should develop was very restrictive.

It was quite limited.

- For the final
rounds of the World Cup,

he thought that Europe and South America

should get the lion's share.

For the World Cup in 1966,

Africa, Asia, and Oceania would
compete for one place only.

It was so bad that the Africans

decided to boycott the preliminary rounds

and not participate in this World Cup.

Stanley Rous considered that those

countries must prove themselves

and once they'd progressed,

the doors to the World Cup

would be open to them more widely.

- Stanley Rous
had no sense of history.

He will pay for this during

the election of his successor in 1974.

Stanley Rous' challenger
hails from the New World.

He is Brazilian.

Throughout South America,

football has become a
major public spectacle.

But in Brazil, football is a religion.

And the high priest of this religion

is the head of the Brazilian
Football Federation.

Joao Havelange is a
businessman well established

in the chemical industry,

insurance, and transport in Brazil.

- I'm born in Brazil,

I've seen football since I was born.

We watch football, eat
football, talk football.

- Joao Havelange is the first

non-European candidate
for FIFA's presidency.

- Those European
men had a Euro-centric vision.

They even had somewhat racist ideas

in FIFA during those years

so Havelange profited from that.

The strategy was to say that
they were against apartheid

and as it existed in South Africa,

they couldn't participate
in the World Cup.

This way they gained the support

of several African football associations.

- For FIFA's
presidential election,

the system is simple.

One vote per country.

The Brazilians will rely on the resentment

of Africans against Stanley
Rous, the outgoing president.

- For Africa, Havelange arrived

as the man of providence for their cause,

the man who'd fight
Stanley Rous' authority.

And a Brazilian seemed a
much more friendly choice

as compared to an Englishman.

Not to mention Africa's
love for Brazilian football

and for the Brazilian selection.

- Joao Havelange fights

a very political campaign.

He visits each of the African
federations one by one.

To win votes, he is accompanied

by the most famous of his countrymen.

- Look at this
athlete with his black skin

and immaculate jersey with the number 10.

His name's Pele.

He's the world's best football player.

As we predicted, the skilled
artist Pele with this attack

has offered Brazil a close victory

with a score of three to two.

- You have to
try to imagine the prestige

of Pele's support during
that FIFA campaign.

It was a formidable plus.

His presence was decisive
on the African front

with the African football federations.

- During this trip to Africa,

Joao Havelange discovered
that 14 African federations

had not paid their annual dues to FIFA

for lack of financial means.

14 votes that the Brazilian
secretly tips in his favor.

- Havelange verified that

the 14 African federations
hadn't paid their FIFA dues,

meaning that they didn't
have the right to vote.

So, he paid their dues for
them with his own money.

He paid from his pocket so those

federations could vote for him.

With this gesture,

he gained the votes of
the 14 African countries.

- The Brazilian candidate then

extended his campaign in eastern Europe.

- In 1974, Joao went to Moscow

to conquer the votes of the Soviet Union

and the countries behind the Iron Curtain.

I was at his disposal
as the only Brazilian

in the embassy who spoke Russian.

- We're in Moscow,

city of peace, friendship,
and hospitality.

- He always tries to make

the Soviet authorities happy

and the families of the Soviet leaders.

He brought aquamarine brooches

for the wives of the
Soviet representatives.

But all of this was done
with great discretion.

- Havelange negotiates
with the Russian Koloskov

who speaks on behalf of all

the federations of the Soviet bloc.

It's quid pro quo.

The two men make a pact.

- Minister
Koloskov guaranteed to Joao

that he would unite the
votes of all of the countries

behind the Iron Curtain and he did it.

On his side, Dr. Havelange
promised the Russians

that he'd give his complete
support to Moscow's

candidature to host the 1980 Olympics.

- And everyone keeps his word.

To get hold of the reins at FIFA,

Joao Havelange is ready to do anything.

But to the reporters,

he wants to appear a fair player.

- I don't
think that it's a combat

it's an election that's permitted by FIFA.

I'm happy we can show football's strength

with this election where
friendship is first.

I consider Stanley Rous to be a friend.

- For his part,

Stanley Rous is too confident,

convinced of his reelection,

he doesn't even bother to campaign.

On the eve of the vote,

he appears confident and arrogant.

- Would it in
fact be such a bad thing then

for football if Brazil did get this post?

- I don't know.

I should be a little apprehensive.

- Why apprehensive?

- Well, in view of the way that I've seen

that their attitude
towards football and sport

is so different from ours.

- What's wrong
with their attitude?

- I think it's a bit too
commercial for one thing.

It's a bit too passionate
on the field sometimes.

And also, off the field,

this is where I think the administrators

don't act, wouldn't act
as the Europeans act.

- In fact then,
you're standing because

you think you can do the job
better than the Brazilians?

- I think I can do it as well as.

- Stanley Rous thought

of himself as already elected.

I think he was even more certain of this

because he'd allied himself with

the president of Adidas, Horst Dassler,

known as the kingmaker.

- With Adidas, Horst Dassler

sponsors the top national teams.

They need money and equipment.

- Horst Dassler was one

of the most powerful men
in sports in the world.

He played his cards on every table.

He knew everyone.

He did favors for everybody.

He was in a way the central
nervous system of sports.

- When Horst
Dassler and Stanley Rous

understand that Havelange
has won over the majority

of the non-European federations,

it is already too late.

In 1974, in Frankfurt,

Sunday Times journalist Keith Botsford

covers the FIFA congress
where he follows Stanley Rous.

- I saw him that
very morning at breakfast.

I asked several harmless questions.

I asked him, did you
have a good breakfast,

did you eat well?

What do you think's gonna happen?

And he said, that son
of a bitch is gonna win.

- That morning
he already understood?

- Yes, he understood.

- The new president
of FIFA is Mr. Havelange.

- The FIFA of Joao Havelange

opens a new page in its history.

Television as a medium was on the verge

of entering almost every
home on the planet.

- Each day
FIFA should light a candle

in honor of the man
who invented television

because it's the catalyst for football.

Above all the catalyst
for FIFA is definitely TV.

Television delivers football
to billions of people.

It's thanks to this medium

that FIFA became extremely rich overnight.

- The new
president decides to make

television channels pay
to broadcast the matches.

- At that moment,

the value of TV rights skyrocketed

and also the diverse ways of making money

with football with the FIFA
image, with FIFA's names,

its mascot, advertising, sponsoring.

He's without a doubt responsible
for transforming football

into an international
billion dollar business.

- Right away we
realized we'd changed eras,

that football had changed forever,

that from Havelange on it
would be something else.

- FIFA globalizes its business.

Television rights become the primary

source of income for the organization.

And to bring in even more money

the new president wanted
to attract major sponsors

who are always seeking more visibility.

Joao Havelange wanted to
approach what was already

the biggest brand in the
world at that time, Coca-Cola.

Patrick Nally led these
very strategic negotiations.

- I spent 18 months of my
life working with Coca-Cola

to talk to Coca-Cola about
how FIFA and football

could be a very unique
opportunity for them

in Africa and Asia and other territories.

And of course, Coca-Cola
had never heard of FIFA.

This is a predominantly
U.S.-based organization

so what was FIFA, who is FIFA?

They didn't know and
understand FIFA at all.

So, we had a lot of
explanation to do to explain

what this international
federation was about.

Coca-Cola back in the early '70s,

all of their publicity and
promotion was done local,

at local levels so we created
the FIFA Coca-Cola program

as the first example of how
the whole Coca-Cola world

could come together and work together

on a single one language one sport.

- From 1976, Coca-Cola becomes

the official sponsor for FIFA.

The contract is worth $6 million,

unheard of in this new marriage between

the worlds of sports and business.

Pepsi Cola, the main
competitor of Coca-Cola,

was previously well
established in football.

This brand disappears under
Coca-Cola's steamroller.

- So, it was the first time that Coca-Cola

had looked at doing something
on an international level.

So, we had to change the whole

philosophy of the Coca-Cola company

to get Coca-Cola to
commit to that agreement.

- Another brand grows thanks

to big mass media organized by FIFA.

It is Adidas.

Its charismatic head Horst Dassler

supported Stanley Rous in 1974

but Dassler is a pragmatic man.

He pledges allegiance to Joao Havelange

immediately on his arrival
as the head of FIFA.

The result, Adidas is everywhere.

The brand's turnover explodes.

- For 10 years,
there was no contract.

No papers were signed between
Havelange and Adolf Dassler.

It all ended with a simple handshake

to decide how much
Adidas should pay to FIFA

for exclusive sponsorship
rights for the World Cup.

That's why for many years
it was almost impossible

to know how much money FIFA was taking in

because it was all based on this trust.

It's a mafia-like system

in the sense that it's
all between friends.

We agree on a deal and it's done.

- The troubled
relationship between

Havelange and Dassler
would worsen over time,

finally mixing together their

business and personal interests.

In 1982, Horst Dassler
founded ISL in Switzerland,

a new company completely
separate from Adidas.

- Dassler was a very clever man,

who having sold all the boots

in the world and all
the strip wanted more.

He realized there was value in sport.

Television wanted it and the price

was going up all the time,

if you could control the sale,

and so he set up the ISL company.

- ISL, led by Horst Dassler,

becomes an intermediary in
this new TV rights market.

ISL buys the rights to
the FIFA World Cups.

It then resells them

to television stations around the world.

On the way, ISL takes in a
comfortable cash commission.

This very lucrative business attracts

the interests of other companies such

as the U.S. company IMG
belonging to Eric Drossart.

In 1995, IMG dreams of taking ISL's place.

- We proposed
two billion Swiss Francs,

one billion Swiss Francs
for each World Cup.

In terms of past deals
concerning TV rights

this was quite an exceptional offer.

- A billion per World Cup.

It was a record.

But FIFA, working with Dassler and ISL

didn't even respond to this

extremely attractive financial proposal.

In the end, years after ISL's coup,

Drossart finally does succeed
in winning the contract.

- The president came into

the executive commission's
conference room.

He said I have bad news and good news.

I'll start with the bad news.

IMG made a higher offer,

about 10% higher than our friends at ISL.

The good news, I'll tell you right away.

I contacted our friends at ISL.

And they've decided to align

themselves with the higher offer.

So, there it is.

- Rigged bidding,
bribes, no transparency.

Joao Havelange ensures
that World Cup TV rights

remain ISL's exclusive territory.

The Scottish journalist, Andrew Jennings,

spent 10 years investigating
FIFA's dealings.

- IMG didn't pay bribes,
they'd pay you the best money

for your television and marketing rights.

Well that isn't what FIFA
and Havelange wanted.

Because if you go into the marketplace

and I've got the World Cup here,

what are you prepared to offer?

That marketing company,
that one, that one,

that one, make your bids.

They didn't do that.

They stayed with ISL.

They never went to market rates.

ISL would pay the money.

- IMG, they never
stood a chance in football

because ISL was always sure they'd

obtain their rights
through the corruption.

Everyone knew that ISL was privileged

but the corruption then wasn't
as visible as it is today.

- To win and retain
the market on TV rights,

ISL paid bribes to many
FIFA senior officials.

Years later, ISL officials acknowledged

this during a trial in Switzerland.

- It's scandalous.

It's proved that in today's money

they paid $150 million to sport officials.

But worst yet,

we don't know who pocketed
the $120 extra million.

We still don't know.

- Under the
table bribes from ISL

were sent to bank accounts
located in tax havens.

Naturally the identity of all
recipients remains secret.

Despite these precautions,

some names have come to light

including that of the president of FIFA.

- They made a mistake,
they sent a bribe from ISL,

instead to Havelange's
private bank account,

they sent it to FIFA.

It's a bank record,

you can't destroy a bank
record, it stays there.

They tried to get the
bank to throw it away,

no they wouldn't.

- This $1 million payment

was sent to Joao Havelange
at FIFA headquarters.

It is the only bribe to
have been proven by the law.

But many suspect the former president

of pocketing tens of millions of Euros.

- Havelange
pocketed huge sums from the ISL.

It's even possible that at the time

Adidas founded ISL just to put people

like Havelange in their pocket.

- After the ISL case,

FIFA decided to no longer delegate

the management of television rights.

- For 24 years,

Joao Havelange directed
FIFA with an iron hand

and ran it single handedly.

But in order to manage daily affairs,

he needed a confidant.

In 1975, he chose a Swiss
national, Josef Blatter,

known as Sepp Blatter.

A graduate of the prestigious
HEC business school,

Blatter had a short stint
with the watchmaker Longines

as public relations director

before being hire by
Horst Dassler at Adidas.

- At Adidas, he
learned to manage payments

and he got an introduction
into the sports world.

Later, after a short training,

Sepp Blatter moved to FIFA,

first as technical director
then as Secretary General.

- The Havelange
Blatter duo worked immediately.

The first decided and the
second executed his orders.

Under the leadership of Joao Havelange,

Blatter personally took care

of the worldwide development
of football in Africa.

He also created new competitions

like the World Cup for
the under 20 year olds.

For years, Blatter mainly worked

on cultivating relationships

with major sponsors like
Adidas or Coca-Cola.

Sepp Blatter slowly became
the, to Joao Havelange.

And although Blatter owes him everything

he dreams of becoming number one himself.

In 1994, when Havelange decides
to run for president again,

Sepp Blatter doesn't
hesitate to stab his mentor

in the back to try to take his place.

- Sepp Blatter
introduced himself to UEFA

saying I don't want to
work with the old guy,

Havelange is too old to be president.

- Gerhard Aigner,

former Secretary General of the UEFA,

remembers Sepp Blatter's
surreal intervention perfectly.

- We asked him directly,

is it true that you're a candidate

against your own president?

And Blatter answered at that meeting,

yes, if the UEFA backs me.

He was asked to leave the meeting

and the UEFA executive committee
needed only five minutes

to decide that we would
not support Blatter.

- Blatter's betrayal soon

reaches the ears of Joao Havelange.

- When Havelange found out
that his boy was a traitor,

was trying to cut him down,

he couldn't sack Blatter
'cause Blatter knew too much.

He was controller of the secrets.

- Sepp
Blatter knew perfectly well

that Joao Havelange was
taking money from ISL.

He knew it was his
protection from being fired.

- So, they sacked two other people.

- As communication
director, I was exposed,

that's part of the job, so they fired me.

To turn the page they needed a scapegoat.

- Joao Havelange
and Sepp Blatter would

manage the crisis on
their own and seal a deal.

- They preferred
an agreement as accomplices.

They decided that in 1994
Havelange would be reelected,

Blatter would stay where he was,

and in 1998, Havelange would leave after

having prepared the post
for Blatter to step into.

- As agreed, Joao Havelange

is reelected in 1994 as
the president of FIFA.

As for Sepp Blatter, he
bides his time patiently.

The expected scenario takes place in 1996.

That day, Havelange officially
announces his retirement.

He is 80 years old.

- My mission as FIFA president

comes to an end at the same time as

the World Cup 1998 in
France comes to an end.

I have a clear conscience because

in the 24 years I've served FIFA

and football with my administration

and those who've accompanied me,

we have changed football around the world.

- Sepp Blatter has been

waiting for this moment for a long time.

But in front of the cameras he

plays his role well and feigns surprise.

- I'm sad that he will
leave because I cannot

imagine that FIFA will be run without him.

21 years together, this
forges not only friendship

but this forges also
a union like a wedding

and I first have now to
digest this information.

- In 1998, Sepp
Blatter's time had finally come.

Yet one man is about to block his path.

The former French football
champion Michel Platini,

triple golden ball winner

and 1980s football superstar.

At the time, Platini was co-chairman

of the organizing committee
for the World Cup in France.

But his term ended and he was
dreaming of directing FIFA.

But Sepp Blatter will dissuade him.

- Sepp Blatter
who's already three steps ahead,

convinces Platini that he's too young

and basically tells him I'm
presenting my candidacy,

you'll be my number two,

my insurance with the athletes.

You'll learn with me and
we'll campaign together.

And that's what happened.

Everything okay, Josef?

Players will participate in
all decisions around the world

from Mr. Blatter's platform and mine, too.

That's the priority.

- With Michel Platini as

a guarantee among the players and coaches,

Blatter leads his campaign.

And to ensure victory,

he relies like Havelange
had done 20 years before

on the vote of the African
federations that he knows well.

He promises them money.

Sepp Blatter launches a
new development program,

the Goal Program.

- The Goal Program is based

on the following principle,

the federations present a project,

maybe the construction
of a training center,

or of a federation headquarters,

and these projects will
be financed by FIFA.

- The Goal
Program was a central element

in promising Sepp Blatter would

win his presidential election in 1998.

The Goal Program promised
$1 million over four years

to each nation that signed up for it.

- For the 1998 election,

Blatter's opponent is Lennart Johansson,

president of the UEFA.

On the eve of the vote,

neither candidate is sure to win.

So, Blatter buys his election.

He would send close collaborators

to this Paris hotel in the night.

Many of the African delegations

were housed here during the congress.

Gerhard Aigner, close
to Lennart Johansson,

is about to go to bed when he
receives a strange phone call.

- That day we
were informed late at night

that something was happening
at the Meridien Hotel

and that we should go meet them there.

I went with two or three members
of our executive committee

and we met with the Africans.

One of the African
representatives was even crying.

He explained to us that at the hotel,

there had occurred an action

to take over the African federations.

- Money was paid?

- They couldn't say it overtly

but we understood that to be the case.

- Mr. Lennart Johansson, 80.

Mr. Josef Blatter, 111.

Ladies and gentlemen, the delegates,

thank you for electing me
to the FIFA presidency.

Thank you very much.

- The new president first

thanks Michel Platini
for his valuable help.

He then offers him the
role of personal advisor.

Platini agrees.

- Platini shakes
hands with Sepp Blatter

saying how much will you give me?

Blatter responds, how much do you want.

And they shake on one
million Swiss Francs a year

for a job whose
responsibilities remain obscure.

Platini had a hard time explaining
what he was hired to do,

a sort of lobbyist and organizational job

rebuilding the future FIFA's calendar.

- Between 1999 and 2002,

Michel Platini works for FIFA

but he refuses to move to Zurich.

This is what drives his critics

to talk about job complacency.

Michel Platini's close
friends firmly defended him.

- He tries getting into contact

with all of the federations,

trying to humanize football.

And he works a great deal, I've sene this.

It's not just a story.

I won't cover a story that doesn't exist.

Of course it helps the affairs of some

to say he doesn't do anything,
that he plays golf all day.

But that's false, he travels a lot.

- The support of Michel Platini

was decisive in the
election of Sepp Blatter.

The latter dons his FIFA
presidential hat with gusto.

His predecessor had allowed
the organization to thrive

thanks to television broadcasting rights.

Blatter raises the stakes.

FIFA raises the price of its
rights by tenfold overnight.

In 2002, during the World
Cup in Japan and Korea,

television rights alone bring

in 1.6 billion Swiss Francs to FIFA.

The new president keeps
his campaign promise

and distributes FIFA gains
among the 209 federations.

- For the first time,

direct money transfers to
the federations take place.

Before that, there'd
never been a direct flow

of money to the national federations.

But it began at that moment.

- FIFA became Santa Claus

for the national federations,

offering money, training,
trips, privileges.

The FIFA president
became the man who could

offer gifts to the 209
federations each day.

- Since 1999,
nearly 700 projects have

been approved by the FIFA
development committee

such as the construction of a
technical center in Tunisia,

a stadium in Estonia,

or a seat for the
federation of Bangladesh.

Sepp Blatter distributes
millions from FIFA

to the four corners of the planet.

He hopes to gain personal benefit.

He dreams notably of winning
the Nobel Peace Prize.

Palestine is his favorite playing field.

In 2008, he offers a brand new stadium

to play international matches.

Blatter multiplies meetings
with Palestinians and Israelis

to facilitate exchanges
between the two peoples.

Is FIFA in a position to solve

such a sensitive political problem?

Ostensibly, the development
programs are a great success.

But behind this respectable facade,

the reality is very different.

We're in Cameroon,

one of the biggest football
countries in Africa.

Cameroon has participated
seven times in the World Cup,

a record on the continent.

Since 2002, FIFA has given a lot of money

to the country's federation,
more than $20 million,

officially to develop
football in Cameroon.

For example, five years ago,

the Cameroon Football Federation announced

the construction of a new headquarters,

a $6 million project.

- Work on the new headquarters

for the Cameroonian Football
Federation began in 2012.

Construction was started with great pomp.

They said it would be a
futuristic headquarters.

From 2012 up to now, the project
has never been completed.

Delivery was slated for 2013.

- FIFA would have sent the money

to the Cameroon Football
Federation's accounts.

Along with several colleagues,

Antoine de Padoue slammed the door.

- When we left
the federation in 2013,

we left about $4.5 million in the account

for the construction of
the FECAFOOT project.

There was a plan, everything they needed.

Today nothing's been done.

All the money's been squandered.

- Jean Lambert
worked for six months

as Secretary General of the
Cameroon Football Federation.

He was fired after having
denounced corruption.

- The embezzling phenomena

is a major sport for
Cameroon's Soccer Federation.

This money coming from
FIFA is uncontrolled funds.

FECAFOOT's leaders used
this money at their will.

They don't think they have
to justify themselves.

Imagine that a person goes on

a mission for an undetermined period.

He goes to a hotel, lives
there with his wife,

children, and his whole family.

They eat and drink all they want.

And without any justification
for the spending they do.

- But the Cameroon football

officials have a ferocious appetite.

The projects launched
by FIFA rarely succeed

and are never completed.

Notably, the organization had planned

to use one million Euros
to build an ultra modern

national technical center
with several football fields.

Today, it consists of
an almost empty shell,

two abandoned buildings,

and one synthetic field.

Even when we look hard,

we can't seem to find the
millions FIFA gave to Cameroon.

- When you
look at FIFA's silence

with regards to all this embezzlement,

you think FECAFOOT and
their allies in FIFA

have perpetrated something completely

criminal on Cameroonian football.

It's true that FIFA says they
have an audit organization

and that this FIFA audit office follows up

on all the use of all of the funds.

But their audits are false.

You don't have to be an expert accountant.

All you need to do is go look

at the facility with your own eyes

and you'll see that the planned
project was never built.

- For the
election of FIFA's president,

each of the 209 member
states has one vote.

In this game, the African Confederation

weighs in heaviest with 54 votes.

- All the projects Blatter

started for football's
development were done

with another priority
in mind, his reelection.

- Wasting of
development programs, fraud,

embezzlement, all this was
clearly denounced within FIFA

in 2002 during an
incredible press conference.

For the first time, an
international report

directly implicates Sepp
Blatter, it's a shock.

The accuser, Michel
Zen-Ruffinen is none other

than the Secretary General
of the organization.

Before an expressionless Sepp Blatter,

he then recommends a cleanup,

something unheard of at FIFA.

- In a confidential report of 30 pages,

I have identified a lot of problems.

There could be corruption
within the organization.

I clearly ask now the president to provide

the respective answers
to me so that we can

enter the new era of
FIFA with a clean record

which at the moment and in my opinion

is definitely not the case.

Thank you.

- I denounced a great number

of things in that report.

I ha lots of elements.

At the time already lots
of things weren't working

and we could have corrected them.

- Michel Zen-Ruffinen
and other senior executives

in the organization request
Blatter's resignation.

During the press conference
the discomfort is palpable.

- This is not an easy World Cup.

Let us work on that.

- I can't leave, I don't want to

because I'm elected up
to the next congress.

I don't want to abandon my
position before this congress.

The congress will decide
who stays as president.

- Sepp Blatter is humiliated.

The one he said he treated like

his own son had betrayed him.

Michel Zen-Ruffinen, a Swiss national,

hailing from the same Canton as Blatter,

is guilty, according to him,

of the worst villainy.

He has disclosed family
secrets to the public.

- The impression
in the world of sports

was always that he was in a separate world

meaning that in his entity,

in his bubble you could
say, a sport bubble,

all decisions could be taken completely

independently with no
outside interference.

In Blatter's mind, that's
his notion of the family.

The idea was no outside control

is possible in FIFA's affairs.

- A month after the release

of the Zen-Ruffinen report,

the FIFA family meets
to elect its president.

Thanks to the unwavering support

of the majority of federations,

Sepp Blatter retains power again,

yet it is no longer the father but the son

whose future in the
organization is in peril.

- We will see what happens.

- Do you personally have

a future with FIFA if Mr. Blatter wins?

- We will discuss that
after the congress, okay.

- How do you expect

the result of the elections to be?

- It's a political question.

I do not answer political questions.

- Unsurprisingly,
Sepp Blatter is reelected.

- Thank you so much.

- And without hesitation he

takes measures to protect
the family secrets.

Michel Zen-Ruffinen leaves FIFA.

As for the report, it
is definitively buried.

- In the report,

there were many elements that
should have been treated.

If they had been treated

it would have improved the situation.

- The term corruption,

you don't want to use it?

- No, I don't want to.

- Why?

- I don't have the right

to speak with that term.

- And if you do?

- I'd be breaking
my confidentiality agreement.

What they asked is that after
leaving the organization

I would not speak about
elements cited in the report.

I committed myself to that
and I'm sticking to it.

- You're saying there

was a financial agreement?

- It's more
of a global agreement

including financial elements.

If your question is, did I
take an indemnity to sign it?

The answer is no.

They owed me a portion of
my salary, they paid it,

and that's all there is to it.

- There is a code

of silence within FIFA, an omerta.

Internal affairs are resolved secretly,

behind closed doors.

The press has often compared FIFA

to another organization
with similar practices.

- Of course the mafia is
famous for murders and drugs

and things and that's
a little bit different

but from a governance perspective,

from a leadership perspective,

that is the right model.

It is, we'll take care of
our own justice internally,

we'll take care of our own community

and we don't need any outside influence.

So, there are some parallels.

- In 2002, after this episode,

several senior FIFA executives were fired

along with Michel Zen-Ruffinen.

The Swiss appeal

but it is never followed up.

The case is closed by the Ministry

of Justice of that country.

- These sports associations are

a big part of the prestige of Switzerland.

I think there's a sense that
they are very lucrative.

They bring in, even the nonprofits,

bring in a lot of revenue

because there's tourism and conferences

and FIFA's very powerful in Switzerland.

- These are open secrets
about corruption in FIFA

and what's Switzerland doing?

Very little.

I think it's a matter of
national pride and reputation.

Switzerland is very proud that it's

the home of so many
international organizations.

But when your pride gets
in the way of your honesty,

that's a problem.

- FIFA reserves
now stand at $1.5 billion.

It's wealth has given the organization

incredible power in Switzerland

but also around the world.

Wherever he goes in the world,

Sepp Blatter is received with great

fanfare by major heads of state who want

to have those World Cup
billions for their country.

When awarding a competition,

FIFA imposes its conditions.

- When FIFA
organizes a World Cup

they insist that funds flow freely,

they insist that visas be
given to all participants,

and the free importation of all

their merchandise must be guaranteed,

meaning FIFA must be able to transport

anything it wants without any control.

- A national
association that wants

to be granted the World Cup must accept

the full exoneration of
the World Cup's business

in its territory or risk not
being granted the tournament.

That shows the power of sports

and how it takes precedence
over the nation's regulations.

- No organization besides FIFA

has the means to suspend the judicial

and legal statutes of entire nations.

- With a World Cup,

FIFA creates activity and wealth.

Organizer countries earn great sums.

Not to mention the prestige.

Some countries would therefore

be desperate to reap the benefits.

Even to the point of buying them.

1998 in France, 2006 in Germany,

each time the awards
process is questioned.

In 2010, it's South
Africa that is selected

to host the tournament,
a first for Africa.

Sepp Blatter is delighted.

- South Africa will deliver the best

ever World Cup in the history.

It will not be the same then in Germany

or in Japan and Korea but
it will be the best ever

because it will be the African World Cup.

- On the surface,

the allocation was transparent and legal

with Nelson Mandela as moral support.

The image was beautiful, historic.

But behind the scenes,

things were much more opaque.

South Africa had bought the
World Cup for $10 million.

It all began in 2004.

That year, there were two
big favorites in the running,

Morocco and South Africa.

A FIFA personality then enters the game.

His name Jack Warner.

He is the president of CONCACAF,

the football federation of North America,

South America, and the Caribbean.

- Jack Warner controlled
a large bloc vote.

FIFA is nothing more than the leadership

that incentivizes FAs with gimmes

and handouts and political favors.

And because of that,

if you're a person who's able
to marshal a lot of votes,

you have a lot of power and
that's who Jack Warner was.

- I met with Jack
Warner two or three times.

Jack Warner came to Morocco
and explained the situation.

He said I've always been
very fond of Morocco

and I've never received anything from you.

If Morocco wants my vote now,

you'll have to pay me.

He came here accompanied
by his wife on the pretext

of an official visit about the tournament

and he wanted a sign from Morocco.

He said, I want to know
who my friends are.

I'm in a position where I
must take care of my friends

and I want to know if
Morocco is my friend.

- Morocco is candidate

for the fourth time in a row.

To win, it would be willing to pay bribes.

This story was told to British

journalists at the Sunday Times

by one of the members of the
FIFA executive committee.

The deal would be simple.

One million in Jack Warner's pocket

and in exchange the CONCACAF
votes are for Morocco.

The Moroccan Najib Salmi confirms

these revelations through hints.

- Did Jack Warner
get an envelope from Morocco?

- What I think
from my powers of deduction

and my intelligence
which is quite average,

I think that yes, he did.

When money changes hands,

we're not there to see it.

Where did it come from?

Who gets it?

We don't know.

- But it's probable?

- Probable?

Of course it's probable.

- On election day,

the Moroccans don't doubt their victory.

Didn't they pay a million dollars for it?

- The night of May 13th,

a Friday about nine p.m.,

we thought Morocco has the World Cup.

We counted the votes
because we knew the voters.

We announced to our delegation that

the results would be
made public at 10 a.m.

But at eight a.m. we learned
that South Africa had won.

- Despite the million dollars

from Morocco he would have pocketed,

Jack Warner would have played both sides

because South Africa had offered
more money to Jack Warner.

$10 million if we are to
believe this document.

An official letter sent to FIFA

by the South African government.

The $10 million would
apparently be destined

for the development of
South African football

in the Caribbean.

But the money sent by
the South Africans was

transferred into the bank
accounts of CONCACAF,

accounts controlled by Jack Warner.

In London, where is an MP,

Damian Collins is a member

of the international
association New FIFA Now.

- I don't believe that the money that was

sent to CONCACAF was going to be used

for football development projects

with the African diaspora
in the Caribbean.

I think this was a ruse by Jack Warner

to get money into his association

and that was his price for supporting

the South African bid
to host the World Cup.

- If South Africa gave this sum,

it was payment for services rendered.

Would you give $10 million
to someone for nothing?

Why did they give this money?

Was it philanthropy?

I don't believe it.

I think it's corruption.

- Could Sepp
Blatter have not known

that South Africa had bought
the World Cup in 2010?

The famous letter from the South Africans

had been sent through FIFA.

The recipient was none
other than Jerome Valcke,

Blatter's faithful right arm.

- If Blatter didn't know about

the $10 million do you
think that South Africa

would have sent the $10 million through

the office of FIFA's Secretary General

to be forwarded to Jack Warner's CONCACAF?

This couldn't be done without
Blatter, it's impossible,

or else Blatter would be a mere puppet.

- As for the obscure
dealings of Jack Warner,

they were an open secret at FIFA.

- Jack Warner has had allegations

of improprieties swirling
around him for years

and Sepp Blatter's always
looked the other way

and never been too
interested in what those

particular allegations
are or the specifics.

And again, it's willful
blindness on his part

and that's what's so
troubling about Sepp Blatter.

- If he didn't know,

he'd be a bad president.

When you're at the center like him,

and you see all that's
happening around you,

and you pretend to know nothing about it,

either you're a weak president,

which is not his case, or you're lying.

- The
allocation biased World Cup

had long been a well kept
secret in the world of football.

The general public knew nothing
of the trading and influence

which engaged some most
senior officials of FIFA.

Everything changed in December 2010.

- The winner to organize the
2022 FIFA World Cup is Qatar.

- On December 2nd, 2010,

we saw that money had triumphed.

The moment Sepp Blatter took the name

from the envelope for the 2022 World Cup

and the paper said Qatar would be

the host of the 2022 World Cup,

I think even the last doubter

realized that something
was not right in all this.

- Qatar, a small
kingdom with a tiny landmass.

Located in the wealthy Persian Gulf.

One of the last areas to
be conquered for FIFA.

Qatar and its promotional
campaign of $250 million.

It's extraordinarily audacious.

Qatar could pay for everything.

Even Zinedine Zidane was
paid in the millions of Euros

to defend the colors of the small Emirate.

- I think it's the moment

for the Middle East to host the World Cup.

- It just became too
much after the Qatar bid,

it was you know, people said enough.

This is not a transparent organization.

How could this possibly happen?

Why is the world's most beloved sport

in the hands of this organization?

- On paper, Qatar didn't stand

a chance of winning their candidacy.

Due to the lack of infrastructure

and the human rights situation
in the small Emirate.

And then it its far too hot

in the summer in Qatar to play football.

Temperatures can climb to
over 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Chilean, Harold Mayne-Nicholls,

responsible for examining
the FIFA nominations in 2010,

gave Qatar the worst rating.

His report also points out dangers

for players to participate in a World Cup

in this country in mid summer.

- The executive committee
basically made this decision

and again the bidding
document was specified summer.

There's no doubt about it.

It said summer.

And they voted for a
summer World Cup in Qatar

knowing that the Harold
Mayne-Nicholls report

suggested that it was
completely inappropriate.

- It's too good to be true.

From the start,

Qatar's victory fuels
suspicions of corruption.

And it's London that will come out

with a very first concrete accusation.

Six months after the disputed vote,

journalists from the Sunday
Times say evidence supports it.

The Qatari Mohammed bin Hammam,

a member of the executive
committee of FIFA,

was paid about $5 million to buy

the votes of several executive members.

In the wake of these
startling revelations,

the organization has no choice

but to permanently remove
Mohammed bin Hammam

from any football related activities.

- Mr. bin Hammam has been a very

controversial figure in this organization.

His activities suggest that

the Qatar World Cup award
may be wholly invalid.

It can't be valid.

- However, the Qatar
World Cup is not affected.

But in 2011, FIFA is facing
an unprecedented crisis.

And in this very difficult year,

it must elect its president.

Again Sepp Blatter has
fully locked in the vote.

He takes a fourth term.

Before the general public,

an outstanding tactical expert,

he pretends he's only just discovered

FIFA's terrible corruption problems.

- I thought we
were in a world of fair play,

of respect, and discipline.

But unfortunately I now
see that it's not the case.

It's no longer the case
because our pyramid,

the famous FIFA pyramid
is now shaking at its base

and there is a danger present.

- But this time,
the pressure is too strong.

Blatter can no longer cover
up the corruption scandals.

To save face and give the image

of a FIFA ready for cleaning out,

he calls upon a man deemed incorruptible,

former U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia.

Officially Garcia has all the power

to investigate the cases
for Qatar and Russia,

a country chosen to organize
the World Cup in 2018.

- I see the issue and the challenge being

getting folks to come in,

getting witnesses, getting documents,

and making sure we use the authorities

that we now have to do that.

My being available and making people

available to talk and hear complaints,

I can assure you that will get done.

- Garcia was the response
to the growing anger

about the severity of the allegations

into the World Cup bidding process,

the allegations that bribes
had been paid to officials.

So, FIFA's response was
to set up Michael Garcia.

They were seeking to
try and persuade people

they were serious about reform.

- But in reality,

the means of action from Michael Garcia

and his five investigators
are extremely limited.

- He had no judicial powers,

his, was strictly limited to people

who worked within football,

so even consultants that had worked on

the World Cup bids were not
part of his investigation.

Some countries just
didn't cooperate at all.

Spain and Portugal, they
didn't cooperate with him.

The Qatari and the bid was
limited to what he could give

and the Russians gave nothing.

The Russians wouldn't even let
Michael Garcia go to Russia.

- Despite these obstacles,

Michael Garcia manages to make

his investigative report to FIFA.

400 pages in which he
points out serious problems

that he would like to make public.

- I think that the more that is public

and the more people can see what is done

and agree with what was done

or disagree with what was done,

then those issues can be resolved

and the organization can move on.

- So, it
should be less secretive?

- He submitted his report and the rumor

is that he was hoping that
it would be made public

but instead what happened was
Judge Eckert summarized it

which is a very strange thing
to do with a legal document,

you wouldn't normally
summarize a document.

- They wouldn't publish his full report.

They published a summary of
it which in Garcia's view

did not reflect at all what
he'd said in his own report.

- Two months later,

Michael Garcia slams
the door at FIFA, angry.

- True reform doesn't
come from adding rules

or creating new committee structures,

it comes from changing the
culture of the organization.

That is the vision needed to light

the path forward for ethics in sports.

Thank you very much.

- To date, The Garcia report

is still classified top secret

and the former U.S.
Attorney is contractually

held to silence about his work with FIFA.

The willingness to change was an illusion.

Things could have continued
exactly as they were

except for the determination

of the authorities of
one particular country.

That country was the
United States of America.

FIFA's troubles with the law
began in Washington, D.C.

in this building, the
headquarters of the FBI.

In 2011, U.S. investigators
are on the trail of a man,

Chuck Blazer, the big boss of
football in the United States.

Blazer is the Secretary
General of CONCACAF,

the federation of North and
South America and the Caribbean.

He works with Jack Warner,
president of this federation.

Blazer is one of the most
senior executives at FIFA

and he is not only known for that.

In the world of football,

he is nicknamed Mr. 10%.

- They call him Mr.
10% because he took 10%

of all of the contracts and all the deals

that he helped negotiate for CONCACAF.

And because he was the general secretary

he was behind most of the deals

and he made a lot of deals for CONCACAF

and for FIFA also.

- Chuck Blazer lives in New York

in the center of Manhattan
on prestigious 5th Avenue.

He leads an incredible lifestyle

in one of the most famous
towers in New York.

He rents several apartments.

But Chuck Blazer mixes his personal

accounts with those of the CONCACAF.

- His rent was covered,
his car was covered,

his chauffeur was covered,
his maid was covered.

Everything was covered by FIFA money.

- Well, he was a person of tremendous

excess in his personal life.

He traveled first class,
he lived in Trump Tower

in an $18,000 a month apartment.

He had an apartment just for his cats.

That one cost $6,000 a month.

- Chuck Blazer
diverts money from FIFA

but he pays no taxes in the United States.

This is what tips of
the tax administration

and the FBI quickly suspects him

of racketeering and money laundering.

They decide to arrest Chuck Blazer.

- To save his own neck,

he ratted out every other contact

he had in CONCACAF and FIFA

he recorded secretly for
years after that once

the FBI stopped him to save
himself from a jail term.

- Blazer agrees
to become a mole for the FBI.

He'll wear a wire under his suit.

- Everyone in FIFA, he had something like

44 names on his target list from the FBI

and these were people he spent

a lot of his time socializing with.

And one of the targets he threw

a birthday party for at
a restaurant in Manhattan

while he was recording this guy.

So, yeah, he had very few scruples

about turning in his
friends and acquaintances.

- From the U.S.,

the police listen to hours
and hours of recordings.

They recover thousands
of sensitive documents

revealing the money trail.

- These people, it appears,
are using U.S. banks

to process their illicit transactions

and that's where the
United States steps in.

- In 2011,
the United States hopes

to be chosen to organize
the World Cup in 2022

but it loses to Qatar.

That is why today many FIFA leaders

accuse the U.S. of wanting revenge.

Sepp Blatter himself would
have supported this view.

Fact or conspiracy theory?

The U.S. authority's case is strong enough

to bring the Swiss courts to cooperate.

- Earlier today, Swiss
authorities in Zurich

arrested seven of the defendants
charged in this indictment

including the current
president of CONCACAF.

- In May 2015,

on the eve of the 65th FIFA congress,

Loretta Lynch, Attorney
General under Barack Obama,

launched a spectacular
dragnet operation in Zurich.

Seven of FIFA's directors are
arrested in a single stroke.

- Though U.S. enforcement is unpopular

in so many other areas of politics,

when the United States
began investigating FIFA,

the world applauded.

I had a student in my
class, a German student,

who stood up one day in class and said

on behalf of all German soccer fans

and soccer fans across Europe,

let me just say thank you United States

for what you're doing in FIFA.

I've never heard an exchange
student, a foreign student,

thank the United States for
anything in class before.

- The American justice system

lifted the veil of corruption within FIFA.

Since 1991, over $150
million has been allegedly

pocketed by senior executives
of the organization

in under the table payments and paybacks.

At the end of September 2015,

in the new turn of events,

Sepp Blatter is targeted
for the first time

with criminal proceedings in Switzerland

for mismanagement and breech of trust.

Immediately some of the
biggest FIFA sponsors,

including Coca-Cola, the oldest,

and McDonald's demand
Blatter's resignation.

Between 2010 and 2014,

Coca-Cola and McDonald's
each paid $30 million a year

to FIFA for marketing
and sponsorship rights.

- The sponsors have been in bed
with FIFA from the beginning

and they've both benefited massively

from this exponential growth.

- The sponsors, yes, put
their money behind FIFA

while knowing that it
was systemically corrupt.

- The goose
that laid the golden egg

has now become a most
disgraceful organization.

- People will put pressure
on companies like Coca-Cola

particularly in the markets in
Europe and the United States

to say, well, you've got to
speak up, you've got to act,

you've got to threaten
or actually withdraw

your financial support from FIFA

otherwise we won't buy your products.

And I think that is where
the pressure has come.

- One brand is at
the heart of the legal turmoil,

it is even accused of
having paid under the table

to enjoy the visibility of the World Cup.

This story takes place in Brazil.

Five times world champion,

the national team set generations

of fans dreaming worldwide.

In 1996, Nike pays 160 million Euros

to put its swoosh on the
Brazilian player's shirts.

But Nike would also pay
stratospheric bribes

to the leaders of the Brazilian federation

officially for renegotiation
of their contract.

- A Brazilian
company that served as middle man

received over $40 million
for doing nothing.

It's a farce because the Nike
contract already existed.

It was just renewed.

What's this company doing if
the contract already existed?

The two parties already knew each other.

In fact, it's a means
for Ricardo Teixeira,

president of the Brazilian federation

and his successors to
keep for themselves 10%

of the sum of the contracts.

- Ricardo Teixeira,

president of Brazilian
football between 1989 and 2012.

When he is made head,
Teixeira is none other

than the son in law of Joao
Havelange, then FIFA president.

Targeted by various affairs,

Teixeira has to resign from his post.

- Brazil should
have been the first country

to show an example of decent,
honest, dignified football.

But in reality it's the exact opposite.

It's the most corrupt country.

- In 2014, hosting
the World Cup in Brazil

costs $11 billion to Brazilian taxpayers.

It is the most expensive
one ever organized.

In Brazil, for example,

the renovation of the stadium
cost nearly $900 million,

triple the amount originally planned.

Much of this money was diverted

obviously using a system

of phony companies and fake invoices.

During their dragnet
in Zurich in May 2015,

U.S. police arrest Jose Maria Marin,

Ricardo Teixeira's successor at the head

of the Brazilian football federation,

also indicted for corruption.

- All Brazilians are grateful

to the FBI for their work.

Today, the former
president of the Brazilian

Football Confederation is in prison.

And personally I believe this
will have a domino effect.

- In Brasilia,
Romario sees this opportunity

to request the establishment

of a parliamentary commission of inquiry.

He was appointed chairman.

- There is
hope the CPI commission

will clean up Brazilian football.

But we know our politicians
and the influence they have.

I'm very skeptical.

I've worked on this subject for years.

I've already denounced
corruption affairs in the CBF.

Today, it's hard to say I
believe in a resolution.

- Will FIFA succeed
in organizing a big cleanup?

In the beginning of 2016,

the FIFA's leadership is done for.

Sepp Blatter is suspended as president

and risks legal charges.

Before leaving office,

Blatter took care to bring down

his successor Michel Platini.

Platini, the friend turned rival

from this famous press conference.

- I said listen, Sepp,

we started together in 1998 in Singapore.

We agreed on FIFA's future.

We have won together,
we've worked together,

today I'm asking that you quit FIFA,

that you resign.

Leave FIFA because its image is bad.

We can no longer go on like this.

- But since,
Michel Platini is caught up

by a curious story of money.

There's talk of a transfer
of almost two million Euros

received from Sepp Blatter in 2011

with no contract signed
between the two men.

Michel Platini's candidacy
disintegrates in mid flight.

February 26th 2016 in Zurich.

Five candidates are vying
to replace Sepp Blatter

but their pedigrees are puzzling.

They all came up within
the Sepp Blatter system.

- You can't proceed with
the current leadership

and expect a different outcome.

I don't think we can
allow people to stand up

and say I have been involved
in FIFA for the last 10 years

through all of these scandals but now,

now I'm going to change everything.

I don't think that's credible.

- What FIFA needs is new leaders,
new blood, and new ideas.

We have a cultural problem at FIFA.

FIFA doesn't need more rules,

they don't need more committees,

they need a cultural fix.

The only way to do that is to bring

in people from the outside.

- During the
course of our investigation,

we solicited Sepp Blatter

and several FIFA officials
on numerous occasions.

Our requests for interviews
remain unanswered.