FIFA and Sepp Blatter: Where will it end?

Football’s world governing body has a chequered past. Zurich-based FIFA has seen more than its fair share of corruption allegations, subsequent investigations – both internal and external – and now extraditions and criminal investigations. In the latest developments, on September 29 Swiss authorities approved a US extradition request for ex-Costa Rican Football Federation President Eduardo Li, the fourth official due to be sent to the United States in connection with a FIFA corruption scandal. The same day Jack Warner, the former president of CONCACAF, the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football, was banned from all football-related activities for life. These moves came just a few days after the Swiss Attorney General's office opened criminal proceedings against outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter. He is being investigated on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and misappropriation. But how did it come to this? We chart the ...