Long before the U.S. Dept. of Justice indicted 14 FIFA officials and executives last week, John Oliver examined the allegations of corruption among soccer's governing body on Last Week Tonight in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup. Now that the FIFA corruption scandal has become big news, you would think that Oliver might have used Sunday night's episode of Last Week Tonight to give us a big "I told you so."
Well, it looks like Oliver is more mature than that. He did tackle what's been going on with FIFA during the latest installment of Last Week Tonight, but his top story was more of a recap of the week's events, from the craziness of the U.S. indicting an organization that represents a sport Americans aren't even really interested in to former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner earnestly using an article published in The Onion as self-defense to gender inequality in this month's Women's World Cup.
But if you've been following along with the news of this high-profile topic, you've probably heard much of this already. The real nugget of the segment was when Oliver took recently re-elected FIFA President Sepp Blatter to task, an official who has somehow managed to evade any indictment charges. Oliver believes that the only way to save the sport of soccer is to get rid of Blatter as FIFA's president, and the only way to do that might be if the organization's sponsors pull out, because that's where a lot of the money is, after all.
Oliver wants the sponsors to pull out so badly, he's prepared to support them himself. He'll wear a pair of Adidas' "ugly shoes," eat everything on the McDonald's Dollar Menu and personally drink one of Budweiser's "disgusting items," all in the name of saving the sport he loves. Now that's dedication.
Check out the full Last Week Tonight segment below.
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