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How FIFA Rebuilt Its Reputation After the 2015 Crisis

"Rebuilt" might be generous framing for what actually happened to FIFA's reputation after 2015. A more precise description might be "managed" — a decade-long project of formal governance reforms, expanded tournaments, and a genuinely successful commercial growth story, running in parallel with recurring controversies that suggest the underlying credibility questions were never fully resolved, just repackaged.

The History of Match-Fixing Allegations in International Football

Match-fixing occupies a different category of football corruption than boardroom bribery — it strikes directly at the thing fans actually watch football for: not knowing the outcome in advance. From century-old English league scandals to sophisticated Asian betting syndicates manipulating international friendlies before a World Cup, match-fixing has a genuinely long, global history that predates and outlasts any single corruption crisis at FIFA's executive level.