Column: At post-Blatter FIFA, can World Cup vote be clean?

PARIS (AP) Perhaps the only thing scarier than the scale of corruption that U.S. investigators are uncovering in football is the thought that a sizeable chunk of those indicted administrators might soon also have laid paws on the sport's crown jewel, the World Cup.

Back in 2013, it seemed like a smart move when the power to decide where soccer's showcase tournament is played was taken away from Sepp Blatter and the FIFA president's discredited Executive Committee.

Their scandal-tainted selection behind closed doors of not just one but two dubious World Cup hosts - Russia for 2018 and Qatar for 2022 - had caused a reputation-shredding stink for FIFA. So at a May 2013 congress on the Indian…