U.S. Soccer Chief Had Suspicions About FIFA Prior to Indictments
Dan Flynn, left, CEO and Secretary General of the US Soccer Federation, speaks during a Senate hearing entitled 'Examining the Governance and Integrity of International Soccer' on July 15, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
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The U.S. Soccer Federation’s secretary general said he had suspicions about FIFA, the sport’s international governing body, but a lack of evidence kept him from acting before it was ensnared in a U.S. corruption investigation.
“There was nothing in the way of any facts that I could take to anyone,” Daniel Flynn, chief executive officer of U.S. Soccer, told a Senate Commerce Committee hearing in Washington. “It was a discomfort level.”