News Tip: To Clean Up Corruption, Soccer Fans Must Hold FIFA Accountable, Duke Expert Says

Recent media reports of corruption within the selection process for the soccer World Cup has the sport's international governing body under increasing scrutiny.Laurent DuboisMarcello Lotti Professor of Romance studies and history, Duke University Laurent.dubois@duke.eduVideo (2010): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAV83omGYnAOn Twitter @soccerpoliticsDubois is the author of "Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France," which tells the story of the French national soccer team and the political and sporting controversies that have surrounded it in recent years. He teaches a course on the World Cup and maintains a soccer blog at http://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/Quote:"The problem is this: FIFA is a global monopoly, and those it purportedly represents -- the world community of football fans -- have effectively no mechanism for making it respect or even listen to their sense of what the ethics or political responsibility of the organization should be. It is one of the least transparent international organizations on the planet. And until fans around the globe begin thinking of themselves as a kind of citizenry and truly begin to put pressure on FIFA to operate differently, very little is likely to change."