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That's the problem. You can create a new thing with the initial leadership that is well intended, but say 250 years later some one less well intended gets voted in charge. So something smaller like FIFA and IOC would be much more susceptible as the voting base is much smaller and easier to corrupt.

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I see what you did there with the 250 years. I just assume you were not talking about football anymore.

> thing with the initial leadership that is well intended, but say 250 years later some one less well intended gets voted in charge

The fundamental problem with FIFA is the revenue body is also the sport’s standards and adjudication body. Split those functions, with one selling tickets and divvying up spoils, while a separate committee polices the sport, and you put aside a lot of the corruption issues unique to FIFA.

A lot of people would be behind this, but it would likely just cause a massive schism. The question to be answered is if the world is large enough for multiple global football organizations, because it's likely many of the regional ones will stay with FIFA for the near to medium-term.

What would be better is if they can work together to root out the corruption, but as long as profitability is worshiped as openly as it is, it will tough to fight since money is so concentrated and it's now a kind of self-sustaining entity.

You only need UEFA and CONMEBOL (South America) to agree with each other. Those two confederations include every FIFA World Cup winner so far. If they make their own organization and their own world cup, that's it for FIFA

Other confederations are important for FIFA-internal politics (especially the African votes, Infantino's biggest group of supporters), but for fans and players the quality of the clubs matters far more. And that is geographically clustered

South America’s federation has been supporting Infantno and supported the plan.

But not the nations. At least the Brazilian association is against the plan and arguably the most important.

On the internet, everything is arguable.

On the field, Brazil doesn’t appear to be most important these days.

It's because you probably don't know much about football (soccer?). The Brazilian football clubs dominate South America.

Brazil has 9 Copa America titles.

Fewer than Argentina.

Fewer than Uruguay.

And yes, I acknowledge your cherry-picking was Libradores.

Brazil has the richest league in South America and thus like England its teams can buy better players.

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