The FIFA bribery scandal was an above-the-fold story in almost every major newspaper worldwide on Thursday, one day after seven officials were arrested in Switzerland in what promises to be the beginning of a lengthy ordeal that might ultimately bring down far more many members of soccer’s international leadership and change the way the sport does business forever.
While this story will stay huge news in Europe, where soccer is king, will it have continue to have legs in America? How long will a country that does its best to ignore soccer stay interested in the scandals of Europeans who everyone figured were shady anyway?